Category: Movie reviews

The Godfather (1972) Film Review

An offer you can’t refuse.

Rating 18
Length 2h55
Release 24.08.1972
Director Francis Ford Coppola
About Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son, Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger.
Moon: no moon sighting
Where to Watch: Channel 4 OD
Trailer:

The Good

There’s no doubt in that this is a well made film and a demonstration of excellence. The opening slow zoom out and the choice of beginning the film with an incident being retold is just one of many examples of the skill and craft of film.

The cast is incredible and each gives their all to the performances. From a young James Caan to a barely recognisable Robert Duvall, you can see how these men have become the silver screen staples over the years.
Al Pacino is incredible as Michael and his arc as outcast military man through his evolution to Don of the family.

The Bad

I’m sure upon first viewings, Marlon Brando’s muffled and puffed up chatter was what added to the film. However, every actor and half-cut lad ever since has mimicked the hamster-cheeked uttering that it feels like mockery. It also doesn’t help that my deafness rendered almost all of Brando’s dialogue incomprehensible without subtitles (albeit about a minute behind the action).

As much as I found the film a little too long, and I would very much love to see Coppola’s parred-down director’s cut, I also wished that Michael’s exile in Scilly was it’s own film. It would make for a beautiful romantic entry and allow for Brando to be the protagonist of the first film; ending with his shooting.

The Ugly

If I could compare it to anything else, it would be a Stephen King book. It meanders at what feels like a needlessly and painfully slow pace. I found myself engaging more with the plot once Al Pacino’s Michael, however it takes over an hour to establish him as the leading man.

Not the film’s fault, but some lines are now so entrenched as pop culture references, this watch felt a little like parody… of course, that was until I remembered that this film originated the lines.

Final Thoughts

Much in a similar way to Shawshank Redemption, I recognise the craft and skill that is demonstrated in the film, but I do not understand what I’m missing about it that makes it so beloved.

Damsel (2024) Film Review with Spoilers

This is not a fairytale.

Rating 12
Length 1h37
Release 05.06.1998
Director Frank Coraci
About A young woman agrees to marry a handsome prince — only to discover it was all a trap. She is thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon and must rely solely on her wits and will to survive.
Moon: no moon sighting
Where to Watch: Netflix
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The Good

Shohreh Aghdashloo is the Alan Rickman of female voices. It’s hypnotic and enchanting, so it’s no surprise that she is the perfect choice for the dragon. Yes, each time she speaks you will be fearful. However you will also wonder why anyone puts up a fight.
Speaking of which, the design of the dragon is incredible. It’s clearly CGI, but because of the design you won’t mind so much.

Buttercup is all grown up and on the dark side. I know people who watched House of Cards know that Robin Wright is no stranger to the questionable side of morality, however seeing her return to the genre that made her an icon. Her talent is seen when she goes toe to toe with Angela Bassett

The Bad

The character of Elodie. Millie Bobby Brown does an incredible job with the what the script and story gives her to work with and there’s no questioning her acting ability. However, the problem is that the character is not given much to do outside of hiding, screaming and crying.
Even the things that they do give her, appear only as and when the plot calls for it. For example, towards the end of the film Elodie is shown to be inventive yet despite plenty of opportunity to show this in the opening act, they film doesn’t sew those initial seeds.

The Ugly

The massive fucking plot hole of the girls being of royal descent and the pretence of marriage. The big problem being that this is all hanging on the fact that the dragon they’re being sacrificed to has great fucking smell.
Or rather, she doesn’t?!
Is the film trying to say there’s some transubstantiation that takes place during the marriage that makes Elodie’s blood ‘royal’, or is that so they’re technically not lying when they make their offering?
Is it really just the palming off of a squidge of blood that convinces the dragon?! Even long after Elodie’s bled from other wounds that will clearly be her own? That dragon is not that stupid, that’s not how blood works and surely words going to get around that they’re holding multiple weddings?!
Get to the talk sooner, have the dragon wake the fuck up and realise she’s being conned and then have the third act be them working together instead of what becomes a quick wrap up.

Final Thoughts

Excellent cast, but a garbage script. It’s worth a watch, but it won’t be making anyone’s regular viewing cycle.

Argylle (2024) Film Review

Rating 12
Length 2h19
Release 01.02.2024
Director Matthew Vaughn
About Reclusive author Elly Conway writes best-selling espionage novels about a secret agent named Argylle who’s on a mission to unravel a global spy syndicate. However, when the plots of her books start to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, the line between fiction and reality begin to blur.
Moon: full moon seen
Where to Watch: Apple TV and Cinemas nationwide
Trailer:

The Good

There are hints of the style that makes Matthew Vaughn’s work successful.

Bryce Dallas Howard, as much as I don’t think she’s right for the role, she is awesome for refusing to lose weight. She’s still skinny, but by society’s standards and n0t Holloywoods. It is refreshing.

The Bad

Henry Cavill’s hair.

I get the film was going for a Long Kiss Goodnight, however Bryce Dallas Howard was miscast. She doesn’t give a believable performance out side of the meek and anxiety-ridden Elly.
Then, when you consider the City of Angels (play, not film) duel fictions versus reality plot that exists alongside the aforementioned Long Kiss Goodnight? The film is clunky as fuck.

The POV shots that include the person blinking. Nope, nope, nope! So fucking annoying and saying that it was over used is an understatement.

The Ugly

The CGI and green screen is too obvious. The cat, Alfie, that should have been a cute addition that steals all of the scenes was instead computer generated and lifeless.
In addition to this, the London Bakunin flat and the crude oil showdown both have irregular perspectives along with dodgy as hell Greenscreen.

You have Bryan fucking Cranston, Catherine O’Hara and Sam Rockwell, yet none of the comedy lands. Everyone is wasted in what is a garbage script and Vaughns’s recycled set pieces and greatest hits of plot points, irrespective of them working or not.

Final Thoughts

I wanted to love this film. I tried so hard to stay invested.

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

She’s slaying. He’s decaying.

Rating 15
Length 1h41
Release 01.03.2024
Director Zelda Williams
About A misunderstood teenager and a reanimated Victorian corpse embark on a murderous journey together to find love, happiness, and a few missing body parts.
Moon: Clip of the full moon from Un Chien Andalou (1929) is seen on the tv and the moon is painted on Lisa’s wall.
Where to Watch: Cinema now
Trailer:

The Good

The 80s is the shit right now in movies. From Totally Killer to the worldwide favourite Stranger Things, audiences can’t quite get enough. This one is not only set in 1989, it heavily draws inspiration from Heathers and Edward Scissorhand for it’s tone and palate.

Kathryn Newton is most definitely one to watch. Even from her early performances in Supernatural I knew she would be able to carry a film with ease. Yes, audiences are in for a bit of a clunky start but once she starts her experiments with ‘The Creature’, and she’s able to have fun with her character you can see why she was picked.

The film completes the 80s feel with Ted Wheeler from Stranger Things by being Ted here too! Yes, the actor has a name that most definitely isn’t Ted Wheeler, but he will forever be Ted “What did I do?” Wheeler to me.

The horror aspect is genius. I love the decisions behind who is killed and it really is refreshing to be watching from the killer’s perspective.

The Bad

Cole Sprouse does a pretty decent job and I initially placed him under ‘good’. However, I couldn’t help but wish this was made even 5 years ago and we could have had Matthew Gray Gubler in the role.

The Ugly

The pace is a little too slow and clunky at the start to set up Lisa’s temperament. I really do wish the film hadn’t bothered with a serial killer and not bring it back again. Particularly when we could have easily had a ‘I myself am strange and unusual’ Lydia without the backstory. That way we remove some of the fat from the opening and start at the party.

Even when Newton and Sprouse are able to let loose and have fun, it’s almost like it’s stuck in second gear and screeching along. It’s aiming for the dark comedy of Freaky, Totally Killer and Its a Wonderful Knife but the script lacks the laughs. Add to that the opening attempted rape and the death of a parent and the tone is too set to bring it back.

Final Thoughts

It has a Heathers meets Edward Scissorhands by way of Warm Bodies vibe and is very much channeling the ‘lets make the 80s nostalgic’ that is so popular at the moment, however it doesn’t quite live up to what the trailer offers.
Had it not taken itself so seriously and played on Newton’s experience in Freaky, it might have been a better film.

The Father (2020)

Nothing is as it seems

Rating 12
Length 1h37
Release 05.06.1998
Director Florian Seller
About Anthony suffers from dementia and is cared for by his daughter, Anne. But when Anne decides to move to Paris and Anthony must deal with this change, he finds himself losing his grip on reality.
Moon: no moon sighting
Where to Watch: 4OD
Trailer:

The Good

Anthony Hopkins is incredible. He gets the temperament on point in every scene and allows us to follow what is a complicated narrative thread. The final scene brings together a climax that the film painstakingly builds towards from the first moment. No one else would have been able to carry this film as he did.

The very thing that makes this a difficult watch, will ensure it’s regarded highly for decades to come. The presentation of an almost non-linear narrative, multiple actors playing the same characters. All of it gives what I can only imagine is an authentic, realistic, presentation of what it must feel like to be loosing your memory.

The script is crisp and clear. It is what helps the audience follow the story and piece together what is and isn’t reality. Without that script and carefully seeded anchors, the audience would be lost and unable to see beyond the scope of Anthony’s condition.

The Bad

I found the story thread of the daughter leaving for Paris hard not to react to. Perhaps my own experience and sacrifice for my father makes me a little angry. I get it, you really shouldn’t put your life on hold however I find myself not really understanding the men in Anne’s life and why they would not be more understanding of the situation.

The Ugly

It is a hard film to watch from the outset. The topic is heartbreaking, and I’ve never had the experience of watching a loved one losing their memory. At least not in the way it’s presented in this film. My father had issues with his memory, but it wasn’t dementia; his was from oxygen deprivation as a result of COPD and so he never lost the sense of who he was.
I cannot imagine this fill being cathartic for those who have had to endure an experience like this and being the emotional sponge that I am; I found it hard not to feel it deeply.

Final Thoughts

Not a film I intend to watch again. Incredibly well made, but a little too painful to watch.

How the West Was Won (1962) Film Review

The Great Dramatic Motion Picture That Puts YOU In Every Scene!

Rating U
Length 2h44
Release 01.11.1962
Director John Ford/ Henry Hathaway/ George Marshall
About Three great Western directors, combined forces with an all-star cast to create this magnificent panorama of how the American West was won – and lost.
Moon: no moon sighting
Where to Watch: BBC IPlayer
Trailer:

The Good

The 3 strip Cinerama process that gives this film the panoramic perspective allows for some breathtaking scenes and individual images. There’s a depth of field that I would compare to Avatar. It’s not often I would want screen grabs on my walls, but this film had many.

The cast is incredible. Like Infinity War/ Endgame level of casting for the modern view who perhaps wouldn’t know the faces or names that populate this film. I could wax lyrical about all of them, but I will point out two specifically: Debbie Reynolds and George Peppard.
Reynolds is someone I’ve only seen on screen in her later life. To see her here, is to see the roots of Carrie Fisher’s performances. As Lilith, Reynolds portrays her through the decades without fault. She has incredible chemistry with everyone she acts alongside and she carries the second segment beautifully, stealing every scene even when iconic Gregory Peck is there.
George Peppard, a name I knew but could not place until I looked him up after the film, not only gives a strong performance, he is able to portray the son of James Stewart’s Linus with an accuracy that not many could achieve.

The narration between segments is a clever way of marking the change in director, time frame and focus character. It keeps the audience with the film at times when other films could lose them.

The Bad

I’m happy with the running time, but I also wonder if this could have been a series of films. I’m happy enough that the Native Americans are not portrayed in a negative light, however the film perhaps would have benefited from more time and focus from their perspective. Something I think only splitting this into individual films could achieve.

It pains me to say this because I adore the man, but James Stewart was entirely wrong and much too old for the role of Linus. Yes, he does a good enough job with what he’s given, but it’s really disappointing to watch.

The Ugly

The 3 strip Cinema process, while incredibly beautiful, took its toll by the end. In the final two sections particularly, there was clear lines showing where the three strips are originally joined together.
There are also certain scenes, particularly when there’s a singular moving image, where the background is distorted. It doesn’t ruin the film, however certainly for me it caused a headache by the end of the film. The distortion, in a similar way to when a film is dubbed, it causes eye strain.
I’m unsure, but I would say this would be reduced by watching on a curved screen which is the format it was made for.

Final Thoughts

I actually have no words for how good this film was. It never felt over long or boring. It’s not only I’ll rush to watch again, but I’ll certainly watch again it at some point.

Babe (1995) Film Review

A little pig goes a long way.

Rating U
Length 1h31
Release 15.12.1995
Director Chris Noonan
About Babe, an orphaned pig, learns to herd sheep after Arthur Hoggett, a farmer, wins him in a contest at a country fair. However, Rex, Hoggett’s lead sheepdog, doesn’t like Babe.
Moon: no moon sighting
Where to Watch: Channel 4
Trailer:

The Good

James Cromwell excels in everything he’s in. That’s not even a question. However, he is the only reason why I rewatched this at all. His dialogue is minimal, yet even without speaking you get a lot about his character and his feelings towards Babe, or ‘Pig’ as he’s known to the ‘Boss’.

The episodic storytelling, and the story overall, is really uplifting. The changing opinions of certain animals about others, the triumph of Babe as a Sheep-Pig… it’s heartwarming shit.

The Bad

This, despite its U rating and cute animal focus, is not a kids movie. It’s too dark in tone and themes to truly be a film that is for children that adults can appreciate. There’s a lot of death; implied and near misses. I got the overwhelming sense that Maa was going to die but I couldn’t remember how. I most definitely didn’t remember the opening scene preparing the pigs for the abetoir.

The biggest plot hole for me is that ‘the Boss’ believed, even for one moment, that Babe killed Maa! Yes, pigs have the potential to eat their own and are know to eat small animals… but to kill a sheep the way the dogs do?! Come on Boss, you are better than that.

The Ugly

I hate the mouths. I had nightmares about the mouths. I get they had to have some movement there, but it’s unnatural and in someplace almost looks like human mouths superimposed onto the animals. Really distressing and not helped by the fact that my dad really enjoyed to watch this movie.

Might sound rather cynical but this time I felt like it was anti-meat propaganda. Being a “kid’s” film, I can imagine many a child refusing to eat bacon for a decent amount of time after watching this, and that’s only from the opening scene.

Final Thoughts

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Film Review

He chopped down the family tree…

Rating PG
Length 1h46
Release 05.06.1998
Director Robert Hammer
About When Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini, who hails from a royal family, is denied dukedom, he plans to kill all the potential threats in his way.
Moon: no moon sighting
Where to Watch: Channel 4
Trailer:

The Good

The story is brilliant in a deliciously dark and comedic way. Yes, it uses the typical bookend narration to frame the story but in this case it works quite well first seeing the protagonist imprisoned, to then see the story of how he found himself there unfold. It also provides a wonderful sting to the end of the film.

The technical skill of having all of the D’Ascoyne family played by Alec Guinness. Today audiences are familiar with the table scene within the Nutty Professor in which Eddie Murphy does fat suits and plays most of the Klump family through use of CGI. However, in Kind Hearts, this will have been completed through camera trickery and it really works.

This film truly gives an idea of the acting range Alec Guinness has. Each character of the D’Ascoyne family is distinctly crafted and performed. My favourite has to be the priest.

The Bad

It’s rather slow to get going, given that it goes right back to the start of Louis’ life. I wonder if there was a quicker way to cover this. Not that it wasn’t interesting, but more because I really would have loved to have spent more time with the individual D’Ascoynes.

The Ugly

The women in this film are not very nice. Edith is rather brash and overbearing, while Sibella truly should have been one of Louis’ targets. Yes, it makes for a compelling story, but by god I disliked her.

Final Thoughts

A film I will most definitely put into rotation.

On Golden Pond (1981) Film Review

when life is at its finest…when love is at its fullest…

Rating PG
Length 1h49
Release 12.03.1981
Director Mark Rydell
About After Chelsea leaves Billy, her fiance’s son, with her parents, she returns to find a friendship bloom between Billy and Norman, her father. Shocked, she reassesses her relationship with her father.
Moon: no moon sighting
Where to Watch: ITV X
Trailer:

The Good

The film, much like others adapted from theatre plays, has incredible dialogue. Yes, the visuals are as good, however it would work just as well performed as a radio play.

Katherine Hepburn, Henry and Jane Fonda not only work well individually, but they work off each other and the chemistry, and animosity, billows off the screen.

I have to give this film credit; it really surprised me. I thought I’d predicted the end. I was so certain of it that I was on edge for the entire film. It was only in the last scene did the film show me that I can sometimes be wrong with my predictions.

The relationship between Norman and Billy Ray Jnr is beautiful and heartwarming. From the exchange “I turned 13 two weeks ago”/ “We’re practically twins” I was sold on where this film was going.

The Bad

The set up of the young boy staying with the elderly couple does not feel authentic. Yes, I just go with it and suspend my belief because the film is so good. For me it was only afterwards and reflecting upon it did I feel that it was the last place Chelsea and her fiancee would ask for help; particularly seeing the damage Norman had done to Chelsea and her happiness.

The Ugly

I found myself shouting at the screen at times. Not necessarily the film, but the character of Edith and her dismissal of Chelsea’s experience really hit home and angered me. I think it is a generational thing; for some wives to berate their children and defend their partner’s actions. The film goes so far as to have Edith treat Billy Ray Jnr in the same way. Instead of acknowledging Norman sundowning as part of his declining memory, she makes the issue about Billy Ray taking it too personally.
It won’t bother people who don’t share Chelsea’s experience and the difficulty in healing, however for some it will make for a difficult viewing.

Also, Niagara Falls! I sobbed like a bitch.

Final Thoughts

I absolutely need to watch this again. If for nothing else, to watch without the anticipation of what I was predicting.

Trolls (2016) Film Review

Find your happy place.

Rating U
Length 1h32
Release 21.10.2016
Director Mike Mitchell
About When the Bergens kidnap a group of trolls, Poppy, the troll princess, goes to their rescue all alone and is soon joined by Branch in her mission.
Moon: Full moon seen frequently in the first half of the movie
Where to Watch: BBC IPlayer
Trailer:

The Good

Anna Kendrick has that ability of playing both sides; the super super happy and the darker sarcastic gal. I would never have wanted anyone other than her in the role of Poppy.

I really quite liked the Bridget and King Gristle Jnr romance storyline and how it fits in with the main Bergens versus Trolls story.

It’s relatively short, so while it’s painful… it doesn’t last long.

The Bad

Why does Hollywood insist on making Russell Brand and James Cordon a thing? Course, RB is finally blacklisted it would seem, but Cordon?! You made him Peter Fucking Rabbit!
Both of their voices make my skin crawl.

It’s a fucking musical! Oh my god, there’s one thing to be super duper happy people… but to have them SING about it?! Yes, good song choices. Kudos on the reworkings, but did it have to be so many songs?

The Ugly

The first act is just way too sickly sweet and sugar filled toxic positivity. There’s just something about it that really makes me yak. I get that it contrasts nicely with the Berkens, but that only works if your audience stays with you.
Of course, when your audience is in single, or early double, digits there’s a good chance the adults don’t get a choice. Man, I feel for you all. I really do.

Final Thoughts

Will I watch this again; fuck no! Will I hate watch the other two for some completist compulsion? Alas, yes!

Midnight Express (1978)

Walk into the incredible true experience of Billy Hayes, and bring all the courage you can!

Rating 18
Length 1h37
Release 10.08.1978
Director Alan Parker
About Billy, an American caught smuggling drugs, is prosecuted and jailed in Turkey for four years. When his sentence is increased to 30 years, Billy, along with other inmates, makes a plan to escape.
Trigger warnings: attempted rape, animal death, drug abuse.
Moon: no moon sighting
Where to Watch: ITVX
Trailer:

The Good

Never in a million years did I think I would be saying this, but Randy Quaid! Dude knocked it out the park. Perhaps I’d written him off as a comedy goofball, but, but his performance is really refreshing.

It really does give food for thought. Yes, the conditions and treatment may have been exaggerated, however we do know that arrests and capital punish happen around the world for what we would consider misdemeanours. By presenting a ‘based on’ reflective film, it keeps that dialogue and conversation at the forefront of all politics. The aim is not to allow people to go free, but ensure that the punishment is humane and gives an opportunity for rehabilitation.

John Hurt gives a performance one would expect of him and from all accounts, he really went to great lengths for an authentic performance.

The Bad

It’s hard to place this here, given that the film won an Oscar for it, but I have an issue with the music. It’s a well crafted score, however it doesn’t fit this film. The synth heavy music would be at home in any SciFi of the time but as it stands, it clashes with the visuals.

I found Billy to be a rather unsympathetic character. No one deserves the treatment he gets in the prison; that is what human rights are for. However, in terms of him being a criminal, there’s no defending him. He’s clearly from an upper economic social background, so his reasoning of ‘I needed the money’ is galling.
Then consider the opening and closing scenes. He’s really shit at not being sus! He might as well have had ‘I’m smuggling drugs’ tattoo’d on his forehead. Then, when he thinks he’s in the clear, Billy grabs his girlfriend’s boob; something that is also punishable in Turkey. Entering into the final act, Billy firstly begs his girlfriend to undress and I found that most disturbing of all. That after being caught in the system, he would put her at risk to masturbate. Horrific.
Finally, what disappointed me most of all is that upon escape and facing an oncoming vehicle, Billy’s body curls in. The body language screams ‘I’m an escapee’ and I don’t understand how he’s not caught. While I’m sure freedom is the overall story arc, for Billy it should have been that ability of being able to carry himself in a way that enables/ earns his freedom. It really is a shame.

This film had Mark Hamill wanting to audition. In the words of Julia Roberts, the studio denying that opportunity? ‘big mistake, huge.’ I guess all Hamill was really known for at the time was Star Wars, but playing Billy, or even Jimmy would have allowed Hollywood to see the versatility that we know Hamill is capable of decades earlier.

The Ugly

The violence is brutal, unrelenting and inhumane. It comes from all directions; inmates and guards. It’s a struggle to watch and the scenes will churn even the strongest of stomachs.
Then there is also the animal abuse and the attempted/ implied rape that add to the brutality of this film. While it’s stated by many after its release that this representation was exaggerated, you cannot deny that this sort of punishment does exist in the world.

By extension, the representation of Turkey in this film is problematic. The real like Billy, the director of the movie and screenwriter, and up and coming Oliver Stone, have all since apologised. With so many apologise, it’s a wonder how much better this film would have been if only they paused to consider the optics.

Final Thoughts

Incredibly well made, but I will never watch it again.

Oliver Twist (1948)

A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !

Rating U
Length 1h56
Release 28.06.1948
Director David Lean
About The famed orphan gets caught up in Fagin’s criminal band while searching for familial love.
Moon: no moon sighting
Where to Watch: ITVX and Youtube
Trailer:

The Good

Once again, David Lean nails the opening. The sound, the intimacy and the heartbreak. So many foundational plot points are set up here and I don’t think I’ve noticed before.

John Howard Davies as the titular Oliver is incredible considering he is the one carrying the film. Davies is able to balance the innocence and vulnerability with a tenacity with no hesitation to defend himself when necessary.

The Bad

Where’s the songs?! I’m not a musical gal, but I do love the 1968 adaptation and the songs by Lionel Bart. I found myself humming ‘Food Glorious Food’, ‘I’d do Anything’ and ‘Consider Yourself’ during the appropriate parts. I’d say I love every single song of that musical, except for ‘Where is love?’. I hadn’t actually realised how much the music added to the film until watching this one without.

Perhaps I watched this a little too close to Great Expectations, but Dickens had a format and a habit of weaving his story with a twist ending or reveal. In the case of these two stories; they both reveal paternal connections to younger characters. In this case, it’s not as smooth though and all feels a little too contrived.

The Ugly

This is one Alec Guinness performance I cannot gush about and is largely to do with the prosthetics used in order to portray the character of Fagin as Jewish. Recently, Bradley Cooper faced criticism for his use of prosthetics to his nose in order to portray composer, Leonard Bernstein. All reasoned arguments were made for both sides and the argument the film made was that it was because Cooper was portraying a real life figure and the facial changes were simply done to allow Cooper to look more like the person he was playing. I’m still not certain where I stand with Maestro, but I do know there is a history of anti-semitic imagery within movies: even Harry Potter has the Goblin Bankers coded as Jewish in such a underhanded way.


It was quite upsetting to see that a villainous fictional character was given what I can only describe as a cartoonish ‘Jewish’ nose; almost too big for Alec Guinness’ face. It’s an overwhelming feeling watching it from 2024, but when you then consider the time in which this film was made, you have to wonder what was going through the film maker’s mind.
In a film that is as well made as Great Expectations, this artistic choice ruins the film and prevents an audience from really taking in Alec Guinness’ performance.

Final Thoughts

Never thought I’d say this, but the Musical is better.