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Friday 29 November 2013

HOW I LIVE NOW [2013]

Based of the young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now is a terrifyingly bleak World War III film, directed by Kevin MacDonald, that's carried by the always wonderful Saoirse Ronan.
There's some wonderful acting, beautiful tones of a bi-polar nature, great scenes of tension & emotion and never tries to be smarter than most films like this would attempt to do.  There is however some brief moments of horrendous dialogue curiously scattered throughout the film, which is suspect might be last second rewrites.  I had some problems with a lot of aimless plot points that really served no purpose to the story and couldn't help but question the sexual relationship between the cousins.  What?  It's written as if the viewer is to accept as any other sort of relationship in a film.
All in all, it's an beautifully enjoyable hit and miss experience.

3 water tablets out of 5

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