October

Bridget Jones’s Baby

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“Great end of a great trilogy”

Bridget Jones is every woman’s spirit animal. She is imperfect, terrible at dating and just a mess, but she is perfect just the way she is. Every woman wants to find their Mr Darcy so we are so excited to see the end of the trilogy.

Although I must admit I was nervous about having the new film as it has been 12 years since the Edge of Reason and 15 since the original Bridget Jones’s Diary! I can’t believe it had been that long and leaving that amount of time is a risky strategy but they managed it in a great way.

From the beginning of the film I loved the throwbacks to the previous films, especially with the use of the song “All by myself” (Carmen, 1975).

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(Maquire, Bridget Jones’s Baby, 2016)

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(Maquire, 2001)

Another lovely touch was with the infamous Christmas Jumpers. As well as having all these little throwback they have also brought Bridget into the 21st century. Her hand written diary is now digitalised in an IPad and she uses FaceTime instead of talking on the phone to her mother.

Unfortunately there were some issues that I cannot forgive. The first being Bridget’s birthday. In the first film Bridget’s birthday is the 9th May and magically in this film her birthday is the 9th November. This is something so simple why the screw up? Another issue I found was Americanisms. At one point in the film they mention Jerry Springer, but in England we would not use Jerry Springer we would use Jeremy Kyle (The English Jerry Springer), maybe I am just being picky but this is something that stuck in my mind ages after the film ended.

Overall there is great chemistry between the three main characters which the audience seemed to love from the laughing out loud. Don’t change for anyone Bridget, we love you “Just the way you are”.

threesome

4/5

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Works Cited

Carmen, E. (1975). All By Myself [Recorded by E. Carmen].

Kidron, B. (Director). (2004). Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason [Motion Picture].

Maquire, S. (Director). (2001). Bridget Jones’s Diary [Motion Picture].

Maquire, S. (Director). (2016). Bridget Jones’s Baby [Motion Picture].

Director: Sharon Maquire

Cast: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey

Crew: Emma Thompson (writer), Helen Fielding (Writer)

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Rating: 15

Inferno

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Terribly predictable

I was looking forward to this movie because I love “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons”. Considering that Ron Howard has stayed on as director and David Koepp is still writing the Screenplay I had high hopes, but it just hasn’t worked.

I can’t pin point what it is exactly that bugged me so much. I think personally it was the inconstancies and the lack of mystery.

Firstly there was some positive things in the film, first of all Tom Hanks. As soon as I heard that the books were going to be made into movies I said to my Dad I think Tom Hanks would be perfect for the role of Robert Langdon and he agreed. We always do this for books, suggest who we would want in the film, and apparently we think the same as Ron Howard. I think he really brought the essence of the character to life, unfortunately the same cannot be said for Felicity Jones as Sienna. Her performance was fairly flat and was monotonous throughout but I think it’s just the way the film turned out.

I also liked the use of technology in the film. Youtube, Gmail, The Guardian and Drones are all used as nice touches but the drone scene has a big no-no for me. Considering that it is set in Florence, Italy and everyone is speaking Italian, so why is the drone in English? For me little things like this really bug me as it makes it obvious that I am watching a film and I am suddenly detached from the actual story.

I haven’t read the book but I am sure it is not as cheesy as the script. “Humanities final hope” (Howard, 2016) is an awful phrase although I do like the idea of if “There’s a switch, if you throw it half the people on earth will die, but if you don’t in a hundred years then the human race will be extinct.” (Howard, 2016)  Films that make you think about these seemingly impossible questions and I think that is why I love thrillers.

One thing that I have to mention is the CGI in the vision scenes. It was terrible! Seeing people walking around with their head facing the wrong way should be terrifying but it was not it was cringe worthy and not in a good sense.

Overall, when I am going to see a mystery thriller I expect it to be unpredictable and keep me guessing. I don’t expect to be able to guess the ending half way through the film. I just found it was messy and incoherent. In the final scenes somewhere that is supposed to be full of people suddenly cut to scenes where there was only 2 characters. These inconsistencies are easy enough to fix but unfortunately just not for this movie.

2 stars.

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Works Cited

Howard, R. (Director). (2016). Inferno [Motion Picture].

 

Director: Ron Howard

Cast:  Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster

Crew: Hans Zimmer (Music), David Koepp (Screenplay)

Genre: Mystery Thriller

Rating: 12A