Film
What's on at the cinema plus reviews of the latest movie and DVD releases
G.O.R.A. (2004)
Director: Ömer Faruk Sorak
Movie review
From Time Out London
Following the Wayans brothers’ unwritten dictum that imitation for imitation’s sake is, much like fart jokes and gay jokes, inherently funny, the wearying Turkish spoof ‘GORA’ rehashes familiar scenes and plot points from ‘Star Wars’, ‘The Matrix’, ‘The Fifth Element’ and other sci-fi standbys in hopes of raising some derisive chuckles. Greasy and unpleasant Arif (screenwriter Cem Yilmaz), a carpet salesman with a sideline in badly staged flying-saucer photos, gets beamed up to a spaceship colony with a male captive population (there’s also a cornrowed, Leia-like princess). He saves the ship from a fireball but that curries no favour with scary chieftain Logar (Yilmaz again)… The budget is obviously low but it’s the humour that bottom-feeds, chewing open-mouthed on overfamiliar movie soundbites, ethnic stereotyping, and depressingly juvenile japes – this is a movie where a prisoner actually drops the soap in the shower.Author: JWin
Time Out London Issue 1787: November 17-24, 2004
Cast & crew
Director: Ömer Faruk Sorak
Producer: Necati Akpinar, Nuri Sevin, Gokhan Tuncel
Cast: Cem Yilmaz, Rasim Oztekin, Ozkan Ugur, Safak Sezer, Idil Firat, Ozge Ozberk, Erdal Tosun, Ozan Guven, Cezmi Baskin full cast
Duration: 127 mins
UK Release: Nov 19 2004
Most popular on this site
Top Stories
A Farewell To Tartan Films
To mourn the loss of the great Tartan Films, Time Out remembers a few of the best films to emerge from their impressive canon
Jason Bateman: interview
Jason Bateman – star of ‘Hancock’, alongside Will Smith – talks to Time Out about his comic influences and how to pretend to throw a car
Ten Great Head Shots In The Movies
Lots of people get shot in the head in the new film 'Wanted'. Read our guide to some other great head shots on film
Set visit: 'The Damned United'
Dave Calhoun gets his training kit on as he visits the set of a new film about football legend Brian Clough’s torrid spell at Leeds United in the mid-1970s






What do you think?
Post your review now