This is England
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Movie Reviews of This is England
Movie Review: Informative Where Other Skinhead Films Deviate
Summary: 3 Stars
While well done and informative about England's 1980s skinhead recession era, the pace was fairly slow. Significant to note is the storyline sticks to the true non-racist basis of the skinheads for the most part, though when the original gang founder returns to reclaim his territory he brings a new more harm-filled credo. The development of his story clearly compromises that of others in the film, which weakens the overall plot. In the end the story demonstrates that at the heart of any extremist group is a mentally unstable leader.Movie Review: Too much talking, choppy and amateurish. Good try though.
Summary: 2 Stars
Based on the filmmaker's own experience in a working class English neighborhood in the 1980s, this is the story of an 11 year old boy who is befriended by a bunch of skinheads. There was a bit of violence and some good acting but there was much too much talking. Even though it had a some emotional impact, I found it rather choppy and amateurish. I also found it hard to understand the English accents and think that there should have been subtitles for an American audience. The directors and one of the actors spoke with the audience later but even though I applaud them for trying, I would not recommend this film.
Movie Review: Great movie, bad DVD.
Summary: 2 Stars
This review isn't about the movie, but rather about the quality of the DVD, which is poorly authored. The advertised extras are all there, the subtitles and alternate audio tracks are there, but the movie itself looks like some old AVI bootleg, not DVD-quality video. Namely, it's badly interlaced - meaning that any time there's movement on the screen, the moving object breaks up in to off-synch horizontal lines. This is something I don't see even on things like Youtube anymore, much less on a professionally released proper DVD. I've tried this disk on 3 different players, all with the same interlaced results.Movie Review: good theme but ...the plot?
Summary: 2 Stars
The themes of masculinity, and disallusioned youth seeking justice are great themes. I applaud the makers for taking it on. But what it lacks is something key to entertainment: an interesting story. It comes off as a mere social commentary in which Thatcher's 80s are subtley compared to the present. There was good acting, especially by the protagonist. But there was no real solution or direction given and therefore left one feeling a bit hopeless at the end.Movie Review: My item never arrived!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I ordered this item for a friends birthday from iNetVideo and after 3 weeks I wrote to them. It took 2 e-mails for a response and then when i finally recieved a response they just said to 'Please be patient for your order, it takes 4-6 weeks for items to be shipped'. Even though I had recieved an e-mail saying that my item had been shipped 2 days after ordering it on Amazon. I have not recieved any other information.