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Infestation (2005)
Best Zombie movie ever?
It's got the lot, creeping tension, spine jangling terror and incredible action. The sense of menace starts early and builds to the crescendo of explosive violence that you hope for in this kind of movie.
In the aftermath of a biological catastrophe mankind has been forced miles underground into cities built into massive caverns. When a survey team sent on a routine mission to the surface goes missing its up to our heroes Sash and Loki along with their team of misfits to bring them back.
What they find up there is a lurking terror that will change all their lives forever.
Watch it today!
Love, Honour and Obey (2000)
Gangsters are people too.
Warning! Probable Spoilers!
Love Honour and Obey features one of the most well rounded British casts I think I've ever had the chance to witness. Watching Johnny Lee Miller, Ray Winstone, Jude Law et al bouncing lines off each other is great to watch especially if you know they're all quite good friends and must of had a great time actually making this.
Here endth the good news. Well kind of. You see it can't quite decided whether to go for out and out comedy or take a darker tone. As a comedy there are a couple of moments which are very funny and a lot of moments that aren't.
Johnny is a courier who's highly dissatisfied with the lot life has given him especially when his best friend Jude is a member of a crime family that controls half of London headed over by his uncle Ray. Johnny wants into Judes way of life and reluctantly Jude helps him by introducing him to Ray. Johnny turns out to be quite the little gangster under Rays guidance and is soon one of the lads.
The lads spend most of their time hanging out, drinking tea and talking about sexual hang-ups (Great British institutions all) but Johnny isn't happy with this. His experience of gangsters is purely from the movies, he wants action and violence not tea and erectile dysfunction. He doesn't understand that all of the people in the gang have lived with violence all of their lives and try to avoid it unless absolutely necessary. Ray is getting married and is talking about becoming a farmer, another gang member wants to quit to start a family which Ray is quite happy with. So he starts provoking the gang that controls the other half of London into violence which as ever escalates into almost all out war.
You see the noble goals of this film, Gangsters are people too, Why can't we all just get along? aren't really explored as much as I'd like. And we're left with a superbly acted half comedy / half drama that doesn't really succeed in doing either.
Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Twin Town) is hypnotic as Johnnys opposite number in the rival gang pushed beyond sanity by Johnny's meddling.
However I would recommend this purely for the wealth of British acting talent on display.
It's no Lock Stock, but it never tried to be.
Human Traffic (1999)
Sorted out for E's and Whizz.
Any film that attempts to capture the essence of a movement/time has to connect with the viewer and make them feel that its talking about their own experiences.
With Human Traffic the director, Justin Kerrigan, really succeeds in capturing the highs and lows of a lost weekend nineties style. Pills, thrills, pubs, clubs with the inevitable comedown and ensuing paranoia are all captured and preserved for future generations.
The film itself can feel a little disjointed in parts as it lurches from one humorous situation to another, more like an out of control sketch show than a movie but the characters are excellently drawn and some of the moments of fantasy had me rolling on the floor, crying with laughter. The cinema manager wasn't amused.
The meeting between Jip and Felix at the bar is my personal favourite moment, where the two characters who share a mutual antithipy actually tell each other what they really think.
Its not "The Last Great Film of the Nineties." but the music is superb and anyone that was there will tell you how close to the truth it really is. When sometime in the future, my granddads ask me,
"What were you like when you were my age Grandad?"
I'll just stick this film on and say,
"That was me."