Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
Interview With Elrond
Eddie Rodney Fleming (Hugo Weaving) has his door broken down at five in the morning. He's dragged to the police station, set down on a metal chair in a dirty interview room, and made to wait. Detective Sergeant John Steele (Tony Martin) would like to ask him a few questions, but he wants him broken first...
It's one of those one-room dramas, just a couple of people sitting and talking for an hour and a half. (More like three rooms, with some few scenes out in the country, but you get the picture.) A really outstanding performance from Weaving can't hide the fact that the script is clumsy and not especially believable. My chief problem is that it's deadly serious -- the characters frown a lot -- and, as is usual with deadly serous films, overly bombastic. Even the production design is grim and gritty. But the story isn't threatening enough to back up that bombast, nor clever enough to find interesting on an intellectual level.
Humbug. Not bad, not great.