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Source Code (2011)
Great Fillm
This is a really classy affair. It's a thriller, a Sci Fi mind spinner, a romance and a first rate action movie. As well as all that its got a couple of cracking performances from the two leads.
The film is very taut and you don't feel that there is any wasted time - every scene seems to matter. Look out for a delightful echo back to a film it resembles in some ways, the wonderful "Groundhog Day", a knowing reference to "living in the mountains".
Its even got a sublime feel-good ending. I've seen this movie three times already but writing about it makes me want to seen it again ... and again. Not to be missed.
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Tasteless Nonsense
A really stupid film. Cloned humans willingly allow themselves to be butchered for spare parts. This is simultaneously silly and gruesome: clones without an eye or hopping around without a leg - Keira Knightley pushing around a walking frame after she's had most of her organs removed. Tacked onto this is an unrelentingly dire love story: girl likes boy, girl looses boy, girl gets boy back but he's about to be butchered.
Still if I had to be positive you have to say the actors take this rubbish seriously and put in solid performances. But aside from the rotten plot the film is so slow and uninteresting that after 2 hours you look at your watch and find out 20 minutes has gone by.