A good movie

Even though I always loved ‘Four Weddings and a funeral’, I’m not a huge fan of Richard Curtis’ work and, for example, I think that ‘Love Actually’ is actually rather overrated. On the other hand, his following directing effort sounded really fun and I was really eager to check it out. Eventually, I thought it was pretty good and I really enjoyed it. Somehow, it reminded me of ‘Pump up the volume’, a rather cheesy film I saw when I was a teenager, starring a young Christian Slater who was still one of the most prosmising young actors at the time. Well, here you have a British version of radio piracy, very loosely based on actual facts and the whole thing was seriously daft. Indeed, to start with, there was a really impressive cast (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Talulah Riley, January Jones, Emma Thompson) and I especially enjoyed Bill Nighy who had the best lines and basically stole the show everytime he was on the screen. Still, to be honest, there was not a real plot whatsoever, the whole thing was just a succession of entertaining but daft scenes and the gimmick of focusing on some naive and innocent young man on board was rather underwhelming. Anyway, to conclude, even though it was nothing really amazing, it was still a really entertaining flick and it is definitely worth a look.

7/10