... that this film was made in the late sixties,starring Woody Allen as a nebbish doofus who mistakenly gets on a plane for Bucharest - what fun it would be watching him try to do a Dizzy Gillespie face when challenged by Nigel.
And imagine this film with a local villain guy who isn't called NIGEL - that makes sense. Every time I hear the name I keep anticipating some English escapee (Molesworth perhaps?)from a boarding school. No disrespect Mads but couldn't you have made them change his name?
Alternatively imagine the fun if this had been made in French in the seventies with some spaced out French actors and Eddie Constantine playing the heavy - Godardian, hey!
Okay, now let's look at the hand we were dealt. The director knows how to film action and he sure keeps the pace up. The Romanian actors are fun. The script has a lovely poetic surreal sensibility (but doesn't need the set up at the beginning - we can sense Charlie is a nutcase right from the off). Bucharest looks fabulously grungy and the local musos are extraordinary - I wanted more of them. The relationship between Gabi and Nigel has been based on romantic assumptions (his) that her playing has saved his life - I can understand why he clings to her regardless of her wishes so let's enjoy more of their backstory meaning more of Mads of course.
What I can't understand is why, having managed to escape Nigel's lethal clutches, Gabi wants to fall into the arms of Shia the unwashed even if he is magically the ONE. He's not funny, nor is he charming, nor is he magical in any sense. Bad casting that one.
So I don't buy it although I enjoyed the ride.
And imagine this film with a local villain guy who isn't called NIGEL - that makes sense. Every time I hear the name I keep anticipating some English escapee (Molesworth perhaps?)from a boarding school. No disrespect Mads but couldn't you have made them change his name?
Alternatively imagine the fun if this had been made in French in the seventies with some spaced out French actors and Eddie Constantine playing the heavy - Godardian, hey!
Okay, now let's look at the hand we were dealt. The director knows how to film action and he sure keeps the pace up. The Romanian actors are fun. The script has a lovely poetic surreal sensibility (but doesn't need the set up at the beginning - we can sense Charlie is a nutcase right from the off). Bucharest looks fabulously grungy and the local musos are extraordinary - I wanted more of them. The relationship between Gabi and Nigel has been based on romantic assumptions (his) that her playing has saved his life - I can understand why he clings to her regardless of her wishes so let's enjoy more of their backstory meaning more of Mads of course.
What I can't understand is why, having managed to escape Nigel's lethal clutches, Gabi wants to fall into the arms of Shia the unwashed even if he is magically the ONE. He's not funny, nor is he charming, nor is he magical in any sense. Bad casting that one.
So I don't buy it although I enjoyed the ride.