Review on 'Trainspotting'

The film "Trainspotting" was in my opinion an OK film but I expected more from it.Ewan McGregor,acted as the heroin-enslaved Mark Renton still ranks as his best. He's well aware of how pathetic his addiction is, but he's utterly entranced with the highs that scoop him from the lowest of the lows (literally). These severe mood swings provide for the darkest and most troubling moments of the film, as well as the funniest as it is predominantly the black humour us British people have. At the most depressing end of the scale is the zombie baby, while the 'worst toilet in Scotland' hits a sick, comedy high which shows parts that wouldn't be funny in the eyes of other international showings (e.g. America,which was shown there but had to have subtitles).

And those are only two of the more extreme incidents in a movie that dares to challenge the British audience. Renton's sad collection of suspect friends don't form typical characters that might indicate sympathy to us.Begbie (Robert Carlyle) is a psychotic who revels in violence, while Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) peddles drugs without mercy, and Spud (Ewan Bremner) who is just unfortunately a loser.

Yet, it's hard not be fascinated by this assorted collection of lowlifes, especially with a cast that burn on the screen, courtesy of an acidic script. The masterstroke is not taking the typically easy British film-making route of going for gritty and depressing. Director Danny Boyle directs with glamour and pace, aided by an inspired soundtrack, and produces a movie that shines with unusual ambition despite its British roots.

I think generally it had it's ups and downs of the film but for great British humour and some weird parts too I would give this film a 6/10 but wouldn't recommend it to be seen at the cinema

Review on a film I watched in the Summer Holidays-'Rise of the planet of the apes'

Rise of the planet of the apes is another of one of the many remakes of the film e.g. the original 1968 movie etc which came out this year.It starts of with a bunch of hunters in the jungle trying to capture some primates to sell which is sold to some scientists in America.They are brought here for as many scientific research is needed,for animal testing/trials for cures for specific disease e.g. dementia, Alzheimer's etc which as testing on primates are the most similar creatures to humans in terms of the anatomy.

The main protagonist (James Franco) is one of the main workers in the company who's father has Alzheimer's which motivates him to work hard to find this cure.As Will is doing trials on the primates,one of them succeeds in curing the missing and damaged links of the brain which could help many people including his father so in all the excitement he rushes to get some powerful business men to fund the cure.As this meeting is happening at the company in San Fransisco.The successfully cured ape driven crazy  what they think is the new drug,in fact is protecting her son ape (Caesar),she smashes her way into the  boardroom and causes chaos, before being taken down by stun darts a security guard shoots her with a real gun as she was going to attack the business investors. The experimental programme has no proof of success in their eyes and is closed down. In all the craziness,Will sneaks a baby chimp home (Caesar) and feeds the experimental cure to both the ape and his own dad. 

This really is a very enjoyable film with some fun,suspense and feeling of involvement, and Caesar is a great character with the fun ways he acts and expressions that are neither similar to a human but bizarrely convincing as a combination of both – dramatically and comically, if not scientifically.A few years on invigorated by the little kiddie chimp swinging around the house, Caesar is almost a son to Will and a grandson to Charles(Will's Dad) who realizes that he is lonely, and that of course is where the beautiful veterinarian (Caroline) Freida Pinto comes in.

This prequel does not quite have the quality of the original 1968 movie, the topsy-turvy world in which apes rule over human slaves, nor its bold racial satire: a suggestion that having set about brutalising and dehumanising the black peoples, racist whites. But there is something transgressive in the story of Caesar's relentless IQ-march, and a radical political education not attributable to the drugs. Locked away in cages with other apes in the hateful primate centre, Caesar achieves a kind of new Spartacist consciousness. He brings his fellow prisoners together, and then moves in as the alpha-ape.

I personally thought this film was fantastic as in the end the apes fight back against the humans to be free and find their new home which to go through all this and to see how the very last scene shows an ill airplane pilot who was accidentally drugged with the cure actually turned into a disease and leaves us on a suspenseful cliffhanger of something catastrophic happening to the Human race.