An acting exercise (and not a very interesting one) disguised as a film.
London (2006)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:5
Rotten:31
Average Rating:3.3/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong sexual content, pervasive language and drug use, and some violence.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Feb 10, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: When Syd (Chris Evans) learns that his ex-girlfriend London (Jessica Biel) is leaving New York without telling him, he responds by impulsively crashing her going away party. Once there fear catches... When Syd (Chris Evans) learns that his ex-girlfriend London (Jessica Biel) is leaving New York without telling him, he responds by impulsively crashing her going away party. Once there fear catches up to him, rather than confront her, he holes up in the bathroom with a pile of cocaine and Bateman (Jason Statham), an enigmatic Englishman he just met. As the two engage in a drug-fueled conversation that runs the gamut from entropy to S&M to the meaning of life, Syd struggles to work up the nerve to talk to London before it's too late. Writer-director Hunter Richards' directorial debut, LONDON, is an alternately hilarious and harrowing meditation on life, religion, sex and love, told from the perspective of a young man cast adrift after losing the one thing he cares about. LONDON challenges us to reexamine our most deeply held beliefs. It also offers a window into a generation of affluent young adults born to the excesses of the 1980s and now searching for meaning in their materially full but spiritually bereft lifestyles. --© Samuel Goldwyn Films [More]
Starring: Chris Evans, Jessica Biel, Jason Statham, Isla Fisher
Starring: Chris Evans, Jessica Biel, Jason Statham, Isla Fisher, Joy Bryant, Ned Bellamy, Kelli Garner, John Haymes Newton, Dane Cook, Leelee Sobieski
Director: Hunter Richards
Director: Hunter Richards
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
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Reviews for London
A muscular ensemble piece with an accomplished cast wringing out their best in an emotionally strained screenplay."
The only thing more tedious than stoned people philosophizing about the existence of God is boys who can't bring themselves to say 'I love you.'
This is a story about people who have no one to blame but themselves. The same goes for the filmmakers.
I've seen more ferocious, and entertaining, spectacles at Raffi concerts.
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy spends hours in a bathroom snorting a mother lode of cocaine while annoying everyone within earshot with his tales of woe. Sounds like a great idea for a movie. Let's do it!
Richards mistakes boorishness for drama, and the seemingly tendentious desire to be off-putting succeeds all too well.
Hunter Richards' parade of sex, drugs and pretty young things is saved by the amazing cast of young talent assembled.
I have seen all of these actors on better days in better movies, and I may have a novena said for them.
Richards recognizes and exploits Evans's beauty, self-reflexively using it as a red herring.
Perhaps the best compliment that can be paid to Hunter Richards’ directorial debut is that it nearly manages to make some of the most irritatingly shallow human beings on Earth seem tragic.
For those who enjoy fashion-model-looking twentysomethings yelling at each other in bathrooms while doing too much cocaine, voila! Heaven is a place called London.
...if you don’t mind watching people who are better looking than you coking up for 90 minutes...
A misfired attempt at provocation and the exploration of philosophical thought, London is little more than an immature display of male bonding on speed.
It's not so interesting to watch people on cocaine babble back and forth at each other.
Let's hope this movie hasn't come out too early in the year to be remembered for a well-deserved Razzie.
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February 08, 2006:
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