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Jean-Baptiste AndreaCamera:
Richard GreatrexActeurs:
Simon Pegg, David Schwimmer, Alice Eve, Natascha McElhone, Jon Polito, Mimi Rogers, Colin Stinton, Julian Glover, Billy Asher, Sarah Edmondson (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Despite being married to a cop, Charlie Wood (David Schwimmer) a frustrated unemployed teacher decides to take revenge on life by joining forces with unpredictable scammer Gus Dickinson (Simon Pegg) and his ambitious ex-girlfriend Josie McBroom (Alice Eve) in their “fool-proof” blackmailing scheme. But, when absolutely nothing goes according to plan and things rapidly go from unimaginably bad to worse, he discovers that little in life is fool-proof ...or without a price. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
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A funny fable made by a Frenchman in a slightly British style with an atypical cast. Half crime-drama, half comedy, with a hearty dose of black humour. Everybody betrays everybody, but in a very unstylish and looser way. It's probably clear to everyone that this act launched Alice Eve's career, but it may not be so incredibly clear that she's already here. A little more than her colleagues, after all.
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A perfect example that even a blend of comedy and thriller can make a great and entertaining film. The filmmakers went all out and had all the characters swimming in so much sh*t (meant literally) that maybe more could have been wrung out of it in the end, but it's still more than enough. Well, consider this, a simple plan to rob a horny reverend goes spectacularly wrong, the priest turns out to be a purveyor of the most hardcore porn, his wife is a murdering psychopath and so is her secret lover – now we are in for a really crazy and murderous story, and that’s the case. Big Nothing may never make it to the big leagues, its story is perhaps a little too contrived and rather shabby at times, and ultimately it doesn't bring much new to the table, but it's nonetheless a royally funny, reasonably morbid, and beautifully fluid film with an excellent cast. If I wanted to look for flaws, I'm sure I'd find plenty, but this comedy just doesn't deserve it.
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A rather crazy film that could be characterized as a comedy with a crime plot, which uses violence as an entertaining element in the style of Tarantino. It has a sense of influence from the American independent scene and it could perhaps be compared to the film 11:14. A script plaything, where multiple plot lines are intertwined, the characters in the film come up with a series of both transparent and completely opaque dirty tricks, and the whole thing is not stylistically clean. However, the film's entertainment value cannot be denied. The biggest draw is Simon Pegg, but the rest are decent as well. The downside, as I mentioned earlier, is the inability to maintain a clean style, so the film sometimes plays on sentimentality through the character of the main protagonist, and some scenes are unnecessarily bloody for a film that presents itself as a family comedy for the majority of its runtime. Overall impression: 75%.
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A solid black-humor thriller. One of the most intricate and attractive scripts in this genre ever. Not only is the central trio entertaining in their own right, the excellent one-liners and unpredictable twists and turns appearing every five minutes are a delight, you are literally shocked and fascinated by the screenwriting pearls the director pulls out and I swallowed the film with a gulp. I have a soft spot for films like this. 90%.
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Jean-Baptiste has seen a lot of movies, has tons of ideas that he puts into good practice and again, after Dead End, proves that he’s certainly got something in him. Simon and David are an excellently matched pair of nice guys and Natascha certainly doesn’t spoil anything for them. At the beginning it seems that the only glitch is the screenplay that seemed to be living up to the title of the movie. But, starting with the scene with the cesspool, the black-humor, hair-brained storyline becomes the main powerhouse. In the end, nothing about Big Nothing is miraculous or even original, but it is first-rate fun. It reminded me of the beautiful experience I had watching Shallow Grave, although they don’t have very much in common really. The sort of movie that you expect big nothing from and then, hey presto, it turns out to be a very pleasant experience.
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