Wednesday 18 December 2013

Lucan (2013 Adrian Shergold)

1. Who cares about Lucky Mad Lord Lucan Cuntington anyhow?
2. How did this get commissioned?
3. Who thought Chris Ecclestone was right for the part of Aspinall? (Would love to have seen Jude Law play him.)

Script lacks character empathy, an interesting story and a decent ending. Rory Kinnear so underperforms Lucan that he almost disappears into the background of the film: if that was the intention then it worked well, but was a foolish approach.

Shot by Tony-Slater Ling and written by Jeff Pope (Dirty Filthy Love, Appropriate Adult) so not without talent, but I rather felt it was the waste of an evening.

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