Review Time: this film is good.
Fundamental elements: there are voice-over elements, cultural elements, background music,
yes and no to subtitles being used when another language is being used, mental
imagery, time jumps and place jumps.
The
background music is consistently noticeable and the movement of this project is
slow, but consistently moving [I will discuss these two points later in this
review.]
Storyline/Back story/Origin storyline: in short all of these elements are good, but having said that the
ending to this project is weird [I should just point out that this project is
dark anyway and it does make sense, this is one of those occasions where you
will have to pay attention.] This project is one of those projects that because
of the way it is; having a ending like this fits in/is to be expected, but my
point here is this; there is a weird ending to this project or let me put it
this way I had to scrap some of this paragraph, because it has just dawned on
me what happened, but it has roughly taken 24 hours for it to dawn on me.
Action sequences: there are weapons being used, combat, torture and exercise.
Character developments/Performances: now first of all generally speaking they are all good [minus one.]
There is chemistry but very small amounts, it is for the majority of the time
friction in one way or another, this is down to our lead character/performer
who has been given the character developments of someone with PTSD Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder. [Before I continue I would like to cover my back by
saying, this is what this characters developments look like/feel like, but I
could be wrong for that I apologize, I just wanted to deal with this sensitive
subject properly, I know next to nothing about this illness besides people that
have served their country or something to this effect may suffer from this; and
this character/performer having an educated guess seems to be suffering from
this illness very strongly, but I apologize if I have offended anyone, this was
not my intention I am here just to talk about this project and nothing more.]
Elba; he
puts in an excellent performance as our lead character/lead role; he believes
in his convictions without question and there are other things [I just don't
want to give too much of the storyline away,] but what I can say is this; the
mannerisms and things of this nature can be a reflection of the movement and
the background music of this project.
This film receives: 7/10, I was going to give this film something higher but the ending
section left a question-mark for an ending; yes it is one of those occasions
where after I have already said it took 24 hours roughly to dawn on me so
either way I think a sensible conclusion would be this mark and if there are
any fans of Elba out there in Internet land, on one hand I will say take a look
at this project, but on the other hand I will say be warned this film is dark
and potentially upsetting to some viewers.
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