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From the trailers
I saw for this film, I knew it was going to be an odd one. It was...oh
yes it was terrible as well.
Paul Sims
I really don't
see the point to this movie, there really was none, unless it was
to depress with the lack of story line and thrust unsympathetic
characters at the audience.
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| Is it me
or is this film depressing |
In all honesty
they actually had the makings to take the film wherever they wanted,
but instead they took it nowhere.
In my opinion
this is completely unforgivable.
The saving grace
for The Martins is Kathy Burke. She adds the only sympathetic character
to the proceedings playing mother.
The basic tale
is of people who have and those that haven't. Lee Evans is Robert,
married to Kathy Burke with a pregnant teenage daughter, and a son
with no friends. It's the cliché of a scrounging waster who
puts more energy into entering competitions than finding a job.
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| The Martins
take on Titanic |
Robert Martin
is a dreamer and increasingly gets himself into trouble just trying
to stand up for his family. The problem is, was the film trying
to be gritty or funny, because at times it hints at both but ultimately
isn't either.
Evans is a good
actor himself and plays Robert well, bringing seething anger suddenly
bursting through his boyish innocence, and I was originally taken
in that this was going to be a study of his character falling apart
but no it wasn't. It was just a boring film.
Be warned also
that there is a large (and I mean huge) amount of swearing in the
film. In fact there are times when a swear word is every second
word.
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