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Movie Reviews of Intermission
Movie Review: Interesting but don't believe the hype.
Summary: 3 Stars
As I played the DVD, the menu greeted me and the music immediately caught my attention. Somebody is singing The Clash's "I Fought The Law" in a heavy Irish accent. I thought it was Shane McGowan doing a solo effort after the Pogues, but after I finished the movie, I was shocked when I learned it was Colin Farrell himself doing the warbling. This is just one of the pleasant surprises watching InterMission on DVD. But there are also a lot of unfulfilled potentials.
Likened to "cool" movies like Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Go, InterMission is definitely engaging with earnest performances by different actors led by known names (Farrell, Colin Meaney), upcoming ones (Cillian Murphy - Scarecrow in Batman Begins, and Kelly McDonald) and the other stars of the Irish film industry (it looks like they're all here). However, the rambling structure (51 characters! Reminiscent of Richard Linklater's Slackers) meanders and is as not as tight as the aforementioned movies. In the end, you'll feel some characters and events are not relevant and the events that transpired are not entirely caused by Murphy and MacDonald's characters' break-up as stated in the back cover synopsis. Sure, everybody is connected in InterMission but some are just there and quite irrelevant. Ultimately, it feels like one big movie about Friendster.
InterMission is a good, fun movie. Don't get me wrong. It has a good soundtrack and interesting characters. It's just not as breakthrough nor fresh (unlike Memento or the similar Go) as the marketers would want us to believe.
Also, this is one movie that's better off seen in DVD. Since you can turn on the subtitles to fully understand the lines delivered in thick Irish accents.
Movie Review: LONDONDERRY HILLS COP
Summary: 3 Stars
John Crowley's first movie, INTERMISSION, earned four IFTA awards, the Irish equivalent to the Oscars, in 2003 : Best Irish Film, Best Director, Best Script (Mark O'Rowe) and Best Supporting Actor (David Wilmot). Most of the actors of the film are well-known to the international audience, Cillian Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition) Murphy, Brian F. Million Dollar Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition) O'Byrne, David Laws of Attraction Wilmot, Kelly Nanny McPhee (Widescreen Edition) Macdonald, Colm Con Air Meaney, and, of course, Colin Farrell had already crossed the Atlantic ocean when they were brought together to shoot INTERMISSION in Ireland.
INTERMISSION is a kind of serious comedy. I mean serious because certain scenes of the movie wouldn't take place in a light family comedy. I'm referring here particularly to the first scene of the film when Colin Farrell, before robbing her, hits the face of a charming young girl he had seduced, or to the interventions of the cop Colm Meaney whose Dirty Harry behaviour is more than questionable. Funny, yes INTERMISSION is funny at times but the film tends rather most of the time to the social description of today Ireland.
A DVD zone back to homeland.
Movie Review: Intermission is fascinating and Colin Farrell plays a hard ass
Summary: 3 Stars
Cillian Murphy (Red Eye, 28 Days Later), Colin Farrell (The New World, the stink bomb Alexander), Colm Meaney (Tv's Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Con Air), Kelly Macdonald (Gosford Park, Loss of Sexual Innocence) and Brian F. O'Bryne (Easy) are some of the cast that star in this humourous and fascinating story about people who live in Dublin, they live their lives working and their dysfunctional lives collide love, commit crimes and really blow their anger. The Cast are all great, especially Murphy, Macdonald and of course Mr. Farrell playing a hard ass here. Meaney also shines as a cop who is making a documentary called On The Streets and a man follows him around with a camera and Meaney shows the guy the scum of the streets. Sometimes furious, like I expect Colin Farrell to slug the girl at the beginning that just took me off. Now that I've seen this movie I want to get some brown sauce and pour it into my drink to see how good it is...that's just me anyway. Also starring little Emma Bolger who was in In America, she was the girl with the ice cream cone at the beginning and Shirley Henderson.Movie Review: TIME BETTER SPENT ON SOMETHING MORE UPLIFTING
Summary: 2 Stars
INTERMISSION was filmed in Ireland and you have these Irish actors with their heavily-accented English, which is wonderful but hard to understand at times. This film has been described as a black comedy. Black, yes, but I don't recall laughing at this essentially violent film. If we don't have blokes hitting lasses in the face with their fists, we have cops beating up suspects, kids flinging stones at buses and cars causing wrecks, robberies and kidnappings. And then there is the emotional violence: a bullying supervisor, a deserting husband, people made fun of for the way they look. So this is Ireland? Or a slice of life in Ireland? Well, I hope not. Almost all the characters in this movie seem angry or drifting. That some of them calm down and find a better direction in the end is redemptive for INTERMISSION but the viewer is still left with a bad taste in his mouth. After watching so many of these art house flicks, one wonders if the time would be better spent at the Gaugain exhibit at the museum or on a Louis Auchincloss novel. Something, anything, with a little class and some uplifting spirit.Movie Review: Colin Farrells performance is the only interesting thing here
Summary: 2 Stars
Weak script, the actors do an acceptable job of trying to breathe some life and depth into it but they still dont manage to salvage the film. Theres an air of disdain and snottiness in the script-writers approach to the characters that makes them feel unemotional, plastic. Colin Farrell's role is brief and he plays the worst person in the film but he manages to inject the role with humanity. You believe he is a messed up sociopath but at the same time feel sorry for him on some level without this emotion being forced out of you.
Which is good but stands in contrast to most of the rest of the film where the emotions feel forced,over the top and unbelievable. In short theres very few parts of the film where you believe this is anything but people reading lines and playing parts.
Colin Farrell saved the film from the scrapheap but beyond his small part theres not much to recommend here unfortunately.