peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2015 10 15 ThisIsEngland90

This is England '90

Thu, Oct 15, 2015./noise/movies | Link

Shane Meadows completes the transformation of his masterful This is England into a middling soap opera. Once again the actors are great, but the characters have lost their edge as children and weddings and old enmities take their inevitable toll on story telling opportunities. Implausibility is one way out, and the one taken. Why wasn't Riz Ahmed in this?