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Not funny, not interesting, not dramatic, adding nothing... yet these producers still found financing for all of the expensive show that gets put on? Don't they all know it's crap as they shoot it? Don't they know the mood is wrong, that nobody is making any effort? Actors must put some emotional capital into the enterprise. They must suffer a little, but here they don't even bother. The whole thing being clumsily balanced on a schoolboy gag about a slang phrase for the sexual technique pompoir makes it even more banal.
Only the director, Tom Vaughan in this case, can destroy a story in this way. It's as if he instructed the actors that their motivation consisted in doing nothing; caring about nothing, reacting to nothing; just dress up, disappear and draw your pay.
The fall of Singapore was a significant event in history but here it is trivialized: the over-the-top-stupid military commanders, the banal, derivative "jazz" soundtrack... and then it's Three Stooges time, but how do you fit the Three Stooges into a historical and tragic event? Imagine something in this style made about the attack on Pearl Harbor. It just doesn't work.
score 1/10
Planar_Being 11 September 2020
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29-10-2020 22:11:04