The Romantics - Movie Review

Katie Holmes , Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin and a cameo from Candice Bergen

So much promise wasted.

Readers Digest should do movies. Like they do books. Condensed. This one could be over in 35 minutes. But you still would not want to see it.

A group of once close friends get together in a beach house ahead of a wedding in their midst. Maid of honour Laura and groom Tom were once an item. On the eve of the wedding they all drink a lot after the rehearsal and Tom & Laura rediscover their love leaving bride to be Lila wondering if the wedding will go ahead.
The participants come across as rich, spoilt and selfish – none are likable – they garner no viewer sympathy so we care little for their emotional anguish.

Based on a novel by Galt Niederhoffer who directed the movie.

3.5/10 – boring and uninspiring and offers little to redeem itself.

The Lady - Movie Review

Sacrifice and Democracy

Bond girl Michelle Yeoh portrays Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the embodiment of Burma’s democracy movement. Her portrayal is superb. Dawid Thewlis is good too as Siu’s husband, Oxford academic Michael Aris. Some of the supporting acting comes across a little flat.

The movie is a bit long and there is a sense that it is a tedious documentary as much as a love story or an epic of the triumph of good over evil. I felt that the movie could have been better – that it did not quite deliver on its promise. Yet I enjoyed it. 6 / 10.