Tag Archives: Gerard Butler

Angel Has Fallen. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Gerard Butler, Piper Perabo, Morgan Freeman, Fredrick Schmidt, Danny Huston, Lance Reddick, Rocci Williams, Harry Ditson, Ori Pfeffer, Michael Landes, Mark Arnold, Kerry Shale, Tim Blake Nelson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nick Nolte.

Occasionally you just have to sit back and be astonished at how a film manages to be given the green light to see the light of day, how, despite the odds, it morphs into a franchise that keeps going, and how it hooks in one of the most respected and gracious actors of his time, the honourable Morgan Freeman, to what is surely no more than a down market version of No Way Out, a simplistic, basic thriller that leaves a taste so thin in the mouth that it could be mistaken for gruel.

Angel Has Fallen. Film Review. full post

(508 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

The Vanishing. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Connor Swindells, Gary Lewis, Ken Drury, Gary Kane, Emma King, Soren Malling, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Roderick Gilkison, John Taylor.

There are some jobs that feel as though they are built for the romantic, for the notion of what being alone with your thoughts can do, and the impact it will have on your soul; time apart from the rest of humanity, time spent with just yourself in command and with nothing to worry about except perhaps the demons waiting in the dark.

The Vanishing. Film Review. full post

(561 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Kit Harrington, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, F. Murray Abraham, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Craig ferguson, Justin Rupple, A.J. Kane.

It never ceases to amaze just how animation can make you appreciate all that you may have once feared, how it can illuminate a moment into clarity in such a way that its more artistically speaking and human face can ever think of achieving.

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Film Review. full post

(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Hunter Killer. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating *

Cast: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Linda Cardellini, Toby Stephens, Common, Adam James,  Cory Johnson, Henry Goodman, Carter MacIntyre, Shane Taylor, Kola Bokinni, Mikey Collins, Will Attenborough, Kieron Bimpson, David Gyasi, Michael Nyqvist, Caroline Goodall, David Yelland, Stuart Milligan.

The land of cliche is under constant threat of never being allowed to die in peace, to be remembered for the small annoyances, for the large discomfort felt, a hero must be seen to stand tall and have the attention of the audience, but they must be seen as being more than a two dimensional caricature which sends a signal to the audience, that the land of cliche is being primed and prepped once more for boarding.

Hunter Killer. Film Review. full post

(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

London Has Fallen, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision *

Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Morgan Freeman, Charlotte Riley, Alon Aboutboul, Waleed Zuaiter, Michael Wildman, Radha Mitchell, Clarkson Guy Williams, Patrick Kennedy, Colin Salmon.

It’s rare for a film to be seen in the minds of its audience as nothing more than propaganda, of pandering and fulfilling its purpose of being a tool for recruitment in a war that doesn’t make sense and one in which will have those with more sheltered lives running for cover and being subject to a fear that is only as real as Hollywood and Government wish it to be.

London Has Fallen, Film Review. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

How To Train Your Dragon 2, Film Review. Odeon Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristin Wiig, Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harrington, Kieron Elliott, Philip McGrade, Andrew Ableson, Gideon Emery, Simon Kassianides, Randy Thom.

There are many films that at the end of the screening you wonder exactly why they are advertised as being for children, why the family, which all when and good as you want the next generation of film lovers to have had great experiences like this rather being baby sat by a games console, has to be involved; for some films are truly made for everybody to enjoy and yet advertisers insist on placing some films in to ready-made box.

How To Train Your Dragon 2, Film Review. Odeon Cinema, Liverpool. full post

(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)