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Review - The Brothers Bloom

October 16th 2009 04:11

When I initially posted the preview of The Brothers Bloom back in May I stated that I thought it would be a lot of fun. And from the narrated outset of the movie it was. Clever - definitely. However in the end the cleverness wore me out slightly and I had really given up caring about the characters and their future together.

Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody are brothers - Stephen and Bloom. Passed from foster home to foster home, they discover that Stephen has a knack for knowing what people will do in a given set of situations and creating complicated cons to worm money and even love from unsuspecting victims. As the movie develops it soon becomes clear that even the audience are part of the victims as it becomes difficult to determine what is a con and what is real.

25 years on and looking to create his own identity away from his brother's scripted cons, Bloom finally makes the effort to leave. However his brother hunts him down and convinces him to return in order to do one final con. The mark in this case is Penelope Stamp (Rachel Weisz), a beautiful but seemingly very odd millionaire heiress who has a hobby of collecting other people's hobbies. The con is to lure Penelope away from her lifestyle and con her out of some of her cash.

The duo are aided by Bang Bang (Rinko Kikuchi), an explosive expert and silent partner, in all manners of the word. She (oddly enough) appeared one day and the Bloom brothers figure that she will stay and aid with the cons until she has had enough and decides to leave of her own accord.

There are moments of real skill shown by the director and writer Rian Johnson, and the actors work very effectively with the script. The delivery of many of the lines are flawless and the actors manage to add real meaning into the oddly situated scenes and characters.

Overall I felt it was too stylised for my liking although I did get a few laughs out of it.

Voyage Review: 3/5

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Posted By: Michelle Sweeney - Category: Comedy

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Comment by JohnDoe

November 6th 2009 17:55

Film & TV on DVD

Another one that i want to see that I missed on the bigscreen, though it is on my Netflix list (mmmmm, Netflix was reason enough to move to the US for me

The thing that makes it a must for me is that the Director of "Brick" was behind it.

Comment by Michelle Sweeney

November 6th 2009 21:23

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I haven't seen Brick. I will have to look out for it.

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