The World's End (2013)
Country: GB/US/JAP
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine, Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan
Synopsis:
A forty year-old breaks out of rehab to reunite his childhood chums for a pub crawl in their home town that, twenty years previously, they never quite completed. However, they soon discover that all is not as it seems in Newton Haven.
Review:
This third Wright-Pegg-Frost collaboration is like an amalgam of the first two, with the zombies of Shaun of the Dead replaced by Auton-like robots, and the Hertfordshire town of Newton Haven not dissimilar to the Cotswold one in Hot Fuzz. It does not quite have the trenchant observational strokes of those films in terms of their Britishness, or the same line in genre parody, but the dialogue is whipcrackingly funny, and the cast is a who's who of male British talent. In the end, though, the action locks into repetitive cycles of comic book violence, and the denouement is unsatisfactory.
Country: GB/US/JAP
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine, Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan
Synopsis:
A forty year-old breaks out of rehab to reunite his childhood chums for a pub crawl in their home town that, twenty years previously, they never quite completed. However, they soon discover that all is not as it seems in Newton Haven.
Review:
This third Wright-Pegg-Frost collaboration is like an amalgam of the first two, with the zombies of Shaun of the Dead replaced by Auton-like robots, and the Hertfordshire town of Newton Haven not dissimilar to the Cotswold one in Hot Fuzz. It does not quite have the trenchant observational strokes of those films in terms of their Britishness, or the same line in genre parody, but the dialogue is whipcrackingly funny, and the cast is a who's who of male British talent. In the end, though, the action locks into repetitive cycles of comic book violence, and the denouement is unsatisfactory.
Country: GB/US/JAP
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine, Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan
Synopsis:
A forty year-old breaks out of rehab to reunite his childhood chums for a pub crawl in their home town that, twenty years previously, they never quite completed. However, they soon discover that all is not as it seems in Newton Haven.
Review:
This third Wright-Pegg-Frost collaboration is like an amalgam of the first two, with the zombies of Shaun of the Dead replaced by Auton-like robots, and the Hertfordshire town of Newton Haven not dissimilar to the Cotswold one in Hot Fuzz. It does not quite have the trenchant observational strokes of those films in terms of their Britishness, or the same line in genre parody, but the dialogue is whipcrackingly funny, and the cast is a who's who of male British talent. In the end, though, the action locks into repetitive cycles of comic book violence, and the denouement is unsatisfactory.