Tag: Charlie Hunnam

PAPILLION (2018) movie review

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Charlie Hunnam strongarms his way through the many stages of imprisonment in this film with his character’s name as the title. He is the unbreakable Cool Hand in this based-on-a-true-story of prison break from the infamous real Papillion .Rami Malek squeaks in as the money roll who needs and is willing to trade all he owns for Hunnam’s protection.

An odd friendship grows between cash and street from ship to shore. From bare-bodied battles to attempts at escape. Nothing seems to work for them.Papillon finds himself in solitary a number of times. It somehow centers him despite emerging emaciated and seemingly broken.

Hunnam’s odd film choices are beginning to find pattern in historical bio pics with outcast heroes who feed on passion and force to survive but somehow rarely win. Always a battle. Always exhaustion. Always society against the one trying to break him. Papillon is no exception.

KING ARTHUR: Legend of the Sword (2017) movie review

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Guy Ritchie’s new foray into old lore leaves one wanting more… wanting more clarity, consistency, and likable characters with trackable plotlines.Through experimental filming and storytelling, the age-old Arthurian legend gets blurred on screen as angry teen magicians create dream sequences that collide in ultra HD street-running and slo-mo fights. Only more herky-jerky than the filming is the dialogue that forces stuttered inside jokes, mistakable relationships, and forgettable caricatures that not even a Beckham cameo could save.Though Charlie Hunnam’s rippling abs and Viking jawline are the stuff of dreams, they are not enough to carry the whole legend and hopeful film series. And, even pert Jude Law’s portrayal of the murderous, evil-possessed uncle is baleful at best as he visits his nasty CG three-headed Ursula muse to gain yellow contacts.Tragically, the great potential in casting and directing cred perhaps became the hubris leading to defeat, for this Excalibur should have remained in the stone until editing could find the glue to bring all of the disparate pieces of this film together.

LOST CITY OF Z (2017) movie review

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Remove the pristine profile shots of Charlie Hunnam’s jawline and the darkened jungle B roll and you’ve lost 80% of this film. If only that was it’s only flaw. Sadly, themes and scenes do not connect. Called to the jungle, the men move forward as mapmakers, explorers, and discoverers attempting to make their marks on history as they walk deadly terrain, meet with danger, and never quite find what they are looking for. Sadly, neither do audience members as the story muddles on.  The main character’s initial drive to regain family status too quickly translates to the goal of personal glory. Robert Pattinson, a bad casting decision, plays the mumbling, no talent co-explorer who helps lead a team of forgettable allies who lack enough purpose and/or enough backstory to validate rants or bouts with jungle-born illnesses.  Even the addition of racial tensions in the early 1900s and a dash of feminist debate fall flat, and both come to no more than fluffy exposition and pointless conjecture for a plot leading nowhere. In the same way, Hunnam’s wanderlust prevails over practicalities and sends him over and over back into the jungle on fruitless endeavors to find a City that stays lost.