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Wick's Review
Summary - Good 3.0
Never Let Me Go never fully had me. It starts well enough, setting up a sensitive love triangle amongst a bunch of Stepford Kids at a remote British boarding school, and then reveals an intriguing SciFi ethical dilemma. However, the movie is atmospheric in the extreme and low key to a point of catatonia. Just as one of the characters was prone to the occasional primal scream, so I wanted to scream “DO SOMETHING!”
Still it has a lot to recommend it, including a strong cast, a sure sense of style and that intriguing medical ethics scenario at its core.
Acting - Good 3.0
Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley are extremely poised as young adults who were raised together and now are sorting out their feelings about one other and their peculiar destinies.
Izzy Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe and especially Ella Purnell are more impressive as their childhood selves.
Sally Hawkins makes a brief but distinctive turn as a teacher who reveals to them their sacrificial destinies.
Male Stars - Good 3.0
Female Stars - Very Good 3.5
Female Costars - Very Good 3.5
Male Costars - OK 2.5
Film - Good 3.0
Direction - Good 3.0
Dialogue - Very Good 3.5
Music - Very Good 3.5
Visuals - Good 3.0
Edge - Risqué 1.9
Sex Titillating 2.3
Violence Fierce 1.7
Rudeness Salty 1.7
Reality - Surreal 2.3
Circumstantial - Surreal 2.8
Biological - Supernatural 3.1
Physical - Natural 1.0
1 Comment
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Wick Jul 31, 2011 1:23PM
Regarding BrianSez’s Review
Sounds great indeed, Bri. Now have it on my Gotta ViewList.