Rainey Dawn
Interesting little film about a suicide bomber and the pursuit to find him.
Dale Haufrect
"Cleanskin" is a very good film from 2012. It is currently available on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming. The writer and director is Hadi Hajaig. For me, Sean (aka 'Ewan') puts on a fantastic performance, in a film where I was also very impressed with Peter Polycarpou (aka 'Nabil'). The romance between Ash and Kate felt very believable, not all actors/actresses can pull this job off. It was a film that touches on a very serious subject, so for all you rom-com addicts, prob not one for you, lol! However, although a serious topic, you'll find some light hearted humor in parts of the film. Have already recommended to friends and family, purchased on DVD myself, so go and watch too if you already haven't. Overall, a great watch with some excellent action shots and twists and turns throughout. I gave it 8 stars. Dale Haufrect
carbuff
Solid and gritty British thriller that feels a bit slow compared to your typical non-stop Hollywood action movie due to its many stops and starts and flashbacks. The plot is reasonably unpredictable and the film takes pains to flesh out the terrorists characters so that they are not just cardboard fodder to be blown away by the troubled anti-hero. "Yippie ki yay, m-f," wouldn't work well here at all. I suspect that one of the higher goals of this film was to "open minds" in the direction of greater understanding and tolerance towards people of one particular religion (you can guess which one), but it had the opposite effect on me, so "Sorry Charlie!" as far as that goes. Be forewarned that there are some scenes of realistic and harsh violence, but so what's new nowadays anyhow. This is definitely not one of Sean Bean's finest movies, but it is still worth the time if this is the kind of subject matter you're seeking. In any event, it's much better than most American films along roughly similar lines, as I discovered after losing an hour and forty-five minutes to "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" immediately before this. After watching "Cleanskin", "Jack Ryan" seemed childish and dopey in comparison and found itself summarily demoted from its original 6 stars down to 4. What can I say, "War is hell."
daggersineyes
Seemed good for the first punchy 30 mins then it wandered off into some other unrelated flashback from a few years back with new characters I didn't care about, then fluttered back to today where something happened with some other characters but I wasn't really sure where it fit in or why it happened. By this time I was no longer sure who was who. Then we went back to the past and some other story line then - whoosh - back to the present and the main character suddenly acting like a maniac. I was starting to feel giddy. I don't know what I can tell you. It was slow, confusing, lacked suspense or mystery and really just got more and more boring when it shouldn't have been. I think the idea was OK but it was poorly executed and the director treated viewers like idiots. Why do film- makers think a "meaningful" movie has to be boring and plod along while they bang the point into your brain over and over with all the subtlety of a cartoon sledge-hammer wielded by Baby Hughey. You can make great entertaining commercially viable movies and still make a point, honest! And why do some viewers think a movie has to be boring to be a "good meaningful movie" so they give it a high rating because it had "a point". Sorry, having "a point" is nowhere near enough. THis is yet another movie where I lost interest in all the characters & their meandering story/s half way through and stopped watching. The whole premise was somewhat naive, obvious and immature but could have been made into a much more powerful and creative statement.
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