DVD & Blu-ray review: Gangster Squad (15)
A star-studded cast grace this poorly scripted Untouchables rip-off, set in late-1940s LA.
May 25, 2013
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A star-studded cast grace this poorly scripted Untouchables rip-off, set in late-1940s LA.
“I’m always in somebody’s way,” laments Mark O’Brien, a California-based poet and journalist who contracted polio as a child and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of his life. Â Â Â Â
Matthias Schoenaerts, Marion Cotillard’s beefy co-star in Rust and Bone , stars in a brooding rural crime saga from Belgium, playing a cattle farmer who deals in illegal growth hormones. Â Â Â Â
“Today is a day of big decisions,†Billy keeps claiming.
“I’m not OK, they want to kill me,†pleads Stephen Moyer to his best pal, Michael (Jack Davenport). Who are “they� Vampires, of course.
Debutant Suraj Sharma equips himself well as earnest teenager Pi in Ang Lee’s sensational-looking adaptation of Yann Martel’s spiritual heartbreaker.    Â
Aaron Eckhart tries his best with this weak Taken/Bourne-like thriller, but the engaging action man and his pronounced chin sag a little as the chase sequences mount up and the villains become ever more irrelevant. Â Â Â Â
The Coen brothers’ first masterpiece, their neo-noir 1983 debut (above), relies on its lead characters explaining diddly-squat to each other.
Why isn’t everyone yelling from the rooftops about this excellent Channel 4 sitcom? It starts sedately – and The Mimic’s pacing remains gentle throughout – but persist and you’ll reap rich comic rewards.    Â