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Elephant White (2011)
Predictable, wooden, and disappointing
I'm not sure what Kevin Bacon was thinking, but this is easily his worst film to date. With his mockney accent in the same league as Dick van Dyke's in Mary Poppins, it seems that this was a "take the money and run" film.
It could have been a good film. It really could have. But the big reveal at the end was telegraphed within the first 30 minutes. The acting was awful. The accents horrific. The direction abominable. In one fight scene, a kick to the head, in slow motion, with no contact, resulted in the victim spitting out blood. The sound effects in the fight scenes was also poor, worse even than those terrible action flicks of the early 80s.
Don't waste your time, folks. The people who made this film didn't, and nor should you.
Circus (2000)
More twists than you can shake a stick at ...
... and that's the problem. They become tedious after a while - when you can guess then next twist time after time, you realise that a movie has lost its spark. A great pity, because it could have been an enjoyable film. As it was, I felt that it was yet another formulaic "Britflick" gangster film. Approach with caution.