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Wu yan (2012)
So many of these reviews have missed the point
The review that says "the European guy was bad news" and the one stating that "he murdered his boyfriend" appear to have missed two important details:
(1) It was the ex girlfriend who set up the video camera when she smuggled the book into the bedroom
(2) the final scenes are in the present time - you can tell this because Luc is wearing the Nike shirt - it's not a flashback.
I'm surprised that so few people appear to be able to follow a fairly straightforward plot.
City by the Sea (2002)
Dreadful
I like all kinds of films - British films, film noir, musicals, police dramas, action, thrillers.... but this is the worst film I've ever seen. I found it totally boring; very dark, incredibly slow. I found it hard to sympathise with any of the stock characters, very two-dimensional and stereotypical. After about 30 minutes, the friend I was with said, "Not very good, is it?" and two minutes later, we left. As we got up, so did lots of other people. This is the only time I've ever walked out halfway through a film; I once had to sit through the Super Mario Brothers as a favour for a friend, but must say that City by the Sea is even worse than that!
Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
Really enjoyable
I've just seen this film and thought it was excellent - and Will Young does very well! The period detail, show tunes and production numbers are all very enjoyable and the story is by turns really funny and very sad and poignant. The previous reviewer does not seem to appreciate that a film about a theatre, which puts on shows, containing a singer... is bound to contain behind- the-scenes stuff, people rehearsing, people singing - the film, after all, is a film about a theatre! What else did he expect to see?! Don't let "peteranderson"'s poorly written review put you off - all he succeeds in doing is displaying a poor vocabulary (does he know no synonyms for "good"?!) and a dislike for Will Young, which says more about him than it does about the film or Will Young's performance.