Reading the case, it tells you that its Human Traffic meets Pulp Fiction.
Now I'm a big fan of independent British cinema, and there are some hidden gems out there, but to come across genuinely interesting movies like the aforementioned, Circus, and It Was An Accident, you have to wade through turgid movies like Hard Men, Final Cut, and Rolling With The Nines.
This ends up somewhere in-between the mess.
It's similarities with Pulp Fiction are only that it has multiple stories, and there's a briefcase involved with one of the narratives. The Human Traffic Connection, well, there's drugs and music. But don't be fooled into thinking that it's as clever as either of those movies.
It has good intentions, but it falls flat after its impressive opening, you know the one,the one where all the main characters are introduced via freeze frame, and the main character narrates a bit about each one, one of the most predictable tropes in a movie like this.
Characters are interesting, but alas, the stories aren't. So we have squatters keeping it real, two lads organising a rave in a church, something to do with a deal going down, and Frank Harper giving it his wide boy routine, like a second rate Ray Winstone.
But it's watchable stuff, and it's fun to see the fashion and hear the music from an era that I was very much a part of.
I just don't remember being that smug about life.
Worth watching if you like these sort of movies.
Experimental in more ways than one.
Now I'm a big fan of independent British cinema, and there are some hidden gems out there, but to come across genuinely interesting movies like the aforementioned, Circus, and It Was An Accident, you have to wade through turgid movies like Hard Men, Final Cut, and Rolling With The Nines.
This ends up somewhere in-between the mess.
It's similarities with Pulp Fiction are only that it has multiple stories, and there's a briefcase involved with one of the narratives. The Human Traffic Connection, well, there's drugs and music. But don't be fooled into thinking that it's as clever as either of those movies.
It has good intentions, but it falls flat after its impressive opening, you know the one,the one where all the main characters are introduced via freeze frame, and the main character narrates a bit about each one, one of the most predictable tropes in a movie like this.
Characters are interesting, but alas, the stories aren't. So we have squatters keeping it real, two lads organising a rave in a church, something to do with a deal going down, and Frank Harper giving it his wide boy routine, like a second rate Ray Winstone.
But it's watchable stuff, and it's fun to see the fashion and hear the music from an era that I was very much a part of.
I just don't remember being that smug about life.
Worth watching if you like these sort of movies.
Experimental in more ways than one.