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Will (2011)

Director: Ellen Perry

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Every so often, a film comes along which is so misguided as to be almost admirable. The tale of a 12-year-old orphan (Perry Eagleton) who heads off across Europe to attend the Champions League Final, ‘Will’ tries so teeth-grindingly hard to be a twinkly, family-friendly fairy tale that it becomes intensely overbearing, abandoning sense and subtlety in favour of blunt religious symbolism, join-the-dots scripting and some of the crudest attempts at emotional manipulation ever committed to film. Everything about ‘Will’ – from a phlegm-drowningly scouse Damian Lewis to perplexed, robot-puppet cameos from Kenny Dalglish and Jamie Carragher, from the logic-bothering absence of border controls to a constant, weird conflation of football and Christianity – just feels wildly wrong. The effect is like being manhandled by a rouged, sherry-fumed elderly relative under the mistletoe: the intentions may be good but the execution is sloppy – and the end result is unsettling and inappropriate.

Author: Tom Huddleston

Time Out London Issue 2150: 3 – 9 November, 2011

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Wow! Great thikning! JK said...

Posted on Jan 24 2012 02:41 Wow! Great thikning! JK

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Knowle S said...

Posted on Nov 24 2011 22:28 Every Liverpool Fan will want to see this

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Knowle1 said...

Posted on Nov 24 2011 22:26 Every Liverpool Fan will want to see this!

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A.Lowe said...

Posted on Nov 06 2011 16:03 Brilliant film especially for football mad kids

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