wordsandmusic
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The book was first published around 1992/3, so quite what the point is of filming it 25 years later, I fail to see, and I wish whoever was responsible hadn't bothered.
Puerile jokes about Charles's ears, the (late) Queen Mother's fondness for horse racing, the (late) Princess Margaret's fondness for cigarettes and gin & tonic - it's all here, and it really doesn't work.
Now top off the whole sorry confection with references to the Princess of Wales still being alive and living abroad somewhere with Dodi Fayed and you start to see how crushingly unfunny and indeed irrelevant this is. It is truly awful.
I've tried to imagine how, or indeed if this might actually have been funny at the time it was written, when some of the characters were still alive and would have meant something to the readers, but I just can't see it.
Not even the excellent cast can save it - it is the biggest turkey of this Christmas.
Puerile jokes about Charles's ears, the (late) Queen Mother's fondness for horse racing, the (late) Princess Margaret's fondness for cigarettes and gin & tonic - it's all here, and it really doesn't work.
Now top off the whole sorry confection with references to the Princess of Wales still being alive and living abroad somewhere with Dodi Fayed and you start to see how crushingly unfunny and indeed irrelevant this is. It is truly awful.
I've tried to imagine how, or indeed if this might actually have been funny at the time it was written, when some of the characters were still alive and would have meant something to the readers, but I just can't see it.
Not even the excellent cast can save it - it is the biggest turkey of this Christmas.
The last time I was tested, I had an IQ of 167. Accordingly, I wonder if there is a 5 year old out there who could explain to me in terms that I might understand, just what the hell the ending was supposed to signify, because I'm sorry - I DON'T GET IT. Hence the title.
Utter drivel. But happy to be persuaded otherwise.
Utter drivel. But happy to be persuaded otherwise.
I've always been a fan of Clint, but here he's done it again. He buys the film rights to a brilliant book, then proceeds to mess with the plot to suit himself. Blood Work was a great book by Michael Connelly, like all his books. (It's about time someone filmed a Harry Bosch story!)
This is not a great film. If you need further proof, see Absolute Power. In that book the character Clint plays gets killed halfway through! Why does he do it??? If you like the book enough to make a film, then film the book, don't just use it as the basis of an idea! Right, time to put the soapbox away and rejoin humanity. That's all folks.
This is not a great film. If you need further proof, see Absolute Power. In that book the character Clint plays gets killed halfway through! Why does he do it??? If you like the book enough to make a film, then film the book, don't just use it as the basis of an idea! Right, time to put the soapbox away and rejoin humanity. That's all folks.