FRANKLYN Film Review - 18/5/09
Months ago I had seen Ryan Phillippe wearing his mask for his character of Preest which had attraction enough for me to seek this out and watch it. Also starring Eva Green as a suicidal art student who films her attempts as 'art' and Sam Riley as a jilted at the altar loner and a world-weary obsessed Bernard Hill all following separate strands of a story set in an alternate reality and real day London. Like a huge dot-to-dot puzzle the individual threads get partly explained with a flip half-way through then fragment somewhat with little explanation? Visually stylish in a decayed Gothic steampunk way this unfortunately fails to deliver but is a quite clever and quirky piece nonetheless!
If you forget the reality side of the film until it becomes impossible to ignore; as the film's jumping from one reality to the next and then back again, you find events in the alternate reality start to mirror the real reality in present day London. Preest has been hired to do a job in Meanwhile City and has failed with the death of his client a young girl. Getting captured by the city's police The Clerics he is given an option to take out a hit on the Individual the man responsible for his failure.
posted by Hugh Jarrs | 1:33 am
2 Comments:
Might be clever and quirky but I fell asleep half way through. Would rather watch my two year old son nativity play when no one knew the words than this up your backside arty rubbish. At least one knows the nativity story, even Eastenders has a more complex storyline......I could have bought a reasonably priced bottle of cabernet sauvignon for the same price as the film which would have had a lot more depth! Waste of lottery funding???
Totally agree with you Mark - Your succinct comments more or less hit the nail on the head. I did say it was 'clever & quirky' but that still doesn't make it a good film. By the end I was in despair!
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