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DVD The Grind
 Run time: 85 min Rating: 2.8 Genres: Crime | Thriller Director: Rishi Opel Writers: Rishi Opel Stars: Jamie Foreman, Danny John-Jules, Zoë Tapper |
| Storyline The Grind is a modern urban drama, set in world of sex, drug dealers, dance nightclubs and loan sharks… See full synopsis » |
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| Details: Country: UK Release Date: 23 March 2012 (UK) |
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| Box Office Budget: £100,000 (estimated) |
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Brit gangster movies can be enjoyable, but this one was simply too tedious and confusing for me. I really wanted to like it. Closer editing would have condensed the story into a crisper 30 minute presentation. The production team was obviously going for gritty street realism, and it showed. It is truly regrettable that I have to produce ten lines of text for this review to be posted, but here goes. The characters were one-dimensional; "Dave" did not come across with the gravitas one seeks in a cinematic villain; Bobby was not tragically flawed, merely tragic; the soundtrack was even more grating than Dave's tire iron; viewers will struggle to differentiate major, minor, and other characters. Would I be spoiling if I recommended that readers not invest any wealth, interest, emotion, or time into this movie? I give it a 5 because I still can't figure out what happened, and that which did happen might have been good to other viewers. Or maybe not.
terrible plot, shocking acting made worse with bad mockney accents, jamie foreman was good but it looks like all the budget went on him! everything about it was really unbelievable, like a bad drama class loads of bad pauses in between lines, bad delivery of lines. Really annoying direction, showing nightclub scenes for too long, seemed like it was trying to pad out the film with slow motion shots of the dance floor, completely boring i had to fast forward loads of bits, and there was no relationships between the characters, and the dialogue was really unbelievable to the DJ.."ill tell you what mate.. bang out a couple of house tunes yeah??" amateur hour! don't bother watching it, total waste of time.
I had lost sight of how bad a film could be.
I am genuinely lost for words and would not know where to begin describing how appalling this film is. However, I'll give it a shot: It is a plot-less mess, that hopes to somehow redeem itself in the 'arty' (read sh*te) editing.
Suffice to say this film could be used as torture mechanism, water- boarding would seem like a month in the Maldives.
Please spare yourself the need to have to write a review by avoiding at all cost.
'The Grind' really does plumb new depths of badly shot banality. It also re-defines what can be called a 'film'
I like gritty, I love 'Deadman's Shoes' (9.8/10 for me) but for f*ck's sake, don't expect anything remotely watchable or anything with a semblance of cohesion or meaning.
I saw this based on the glowing reviews. However, take a look at those reviews and they are by individuals who have NEVER written a review before.
Sure, it's now commonplace to label such glowing reviews from 1st-time reviewers as being shills, and many current reviewers will say exactly that in their negative reviews.
Well…so will I.
I cannot disagree with them. I saw the same film as those giving this 9 and 10 stars, and all I saw was a student-grade film which had more a bit more money thrown at it. As far as the look, it was cheesy and was potentially shot with a DSLR. Which isn't necessarily the kiss of death, but only really works when they are in the hands of those who know how to use them, how to light a scene, and how to make it look better in post. This team didn't achieve that.
Having a low-budget NEVER stopped a film from being excellent, cept when those behind it have little or no talent. And this is one of those situations.
The acting, writing, and direction are not much better either. Extremely common and well-trodden ground.
As I often say, and I am dead-sincere….I've seen better student films.