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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Gerald McMorrow (screenplay)
Release Date:
27 February 2009 (UK) more
Tagline:
Reality hasn't got a prayer. more
Plot:
The film is a split narrative set simultaneously in contemporary London and in a future metropolis ruled by religious fervor... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
(47 articles)
Eva Green And Ewan McGregor In “The Last Word”
(From Filmofilia. 29 October 2009, 9:02 AM, PDT)
Franklyn (Film Review)
(From Fangoria. 1 October 2009, 11:14 PM, PDT)
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An elegant saga on human despair more (39 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Eva Green | ... | Emilia Bryant |
 | Ryan Phillippe | ... | Jonathan Preest |
 | Sam Riley | ... | Milo |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Richard Coyle | ... | Dan |
 | Sam Douglas | ... | Saul |
| Jay Fuller | ... | Monk |
| Jeanie Gold | ... | Patient |
 | Bernard Hill | ... | The Individual / Peter Esser |
| Georgia Mackenzie | ... | Teri |
| Art Malik | ... | Tarrant |
| Kika Markham | ... | Naomi |
| Gary Pillai | ... | Doctor |
| Stephen Walters | ... | Wormsnakes / Wasnik |
 | Chris Wilson | ... | Police Officer |
 | Mark Wingett | ... | Frank Grant |
| Susannah York | ... | Margaret |
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Rated R for language.
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Runtime:
98 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Ireland:16 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #45556) | Portugal:M/16
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Bernard Hill replaced John Hurt. more
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Continuity: The man talking to Milo in the room where the red haired woman disappeared to and another unseen character added some tiles to his original cross shaped design on the table. After Milo leaves the camera tilts down as the man writes into his notebook and the additional tiles are gone, reverting back to the cross shape. more
Quotes:
Preest: If a god is willing to prevent evil, but not able, then he is not omnipotent. If he is able, but not willing, then he must be malevolent. If he is neither able or willing then why call him a god? Why else do bad things happen to good people? more
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I've seen a few movies similar to this, using sci-fi/fantasy imagery to portray an internal state of mind. Too intellectual for some I guess, and it definitely goes beyond 'what you see is what you get'.
This movie worked for me. Some have been critical that the characters in the film were not interesting enough. I on the other hand think the director/writer Gerald McMorrow successfully walked the thin line of saying just enough, enabling the actors to fill in the gaps and create personas rather than cookie cut-outs. The characters were memorable and real, responding to slightly surreal situations in two worlds that were both out of kilter with our own. The movie's alternate realities drew me in and kept me interested, and the eventual juxtaposition of both did so even more.
This is a smartly made movie - with very convincing CGI for the fantasy world combined with almost an indie sense of the intimate and human in the alternate world closer to our own.
Well this review is not much of a blow-by-blow synopsis, others can do that, but if you appreciate strong acting, and an imaginative script, I don't think you will be disappointed.
7/10