Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by dave c (A) on August 12, 2007 at 14:21:53

The is Michael Winterbottom's telling of the kidnapping and murder of journalist Danny Pearl.
Unfortunately it is so uninvolving and badly made that it will leave most people untouched.
Half the film is shot as a Bollywood thriller with scenes of fuzzy cars racing (!!!) through crowded streets and shoulder mounted cameras running down corridors. Much of the rest is the police gving repeated briefings to Pearl's wife (Angelina Jolie as the world's thinnest pregnant women) and a growing crowd of diplomats and (curiously) journalists who seem camped out in the Pearls' house.
Halfway through a man who looks curiously like Pearl arrives and joins them, but no one seems to notice...
I found no one who had any idea who he was supposed to be.
At the end the Jolie character gets self-righteously mad at a journalist who asks if she has seen the video of her husband being killed. She replies "Have you no decency?"
She then wrote the book this film is based on.
Throughout she does little apart from occasionally storm round the house and say "fooook" in a sort of French-ish accent, and at the end she gives birth without breaking sweat.
What a missed opportunity this film is.