Snap Review of Pirate Radio
Posted by Matt Rosenberg on November 13, 2009 at 12:17 am
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“Pirate Radio” is the new film about Rock and Roll fanatics who broadcasted, via the ocean, to England in the 1970’s. Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays ‘the count,’ the cool, hip DJ who dominates the air waves. Bill Nighy plays the lead producer of the boat, essentially the boss, and runs the radio station. Nick Frost and Rhys Ifans are also intriguing DJ’s and are big part of the station.
Unfortunately this movie is a bad combination of “Almost Famous” and “Outside Providence,” both of which were very good films. This film dragged on a bit. Yes, we get the picture, they all loved Rock & Roll. And yes, they had to announce it every scene in order to remind me.
While the music was great, mix of personalities interesting, this film as a whole was nothing special. The main character, Carl, a struggling high school student played by Tom Sturride, was an awkward and unconvincing lead. His inability to be comfortable in front of the camera caused the movie to take a turn for the worse. He was a ‘pulling-teeth’ version of the weird guy from “American Beauty.”
All in all this movie was ok. Music lovers may like it, but will most likely be unsatisfied. The story was choppy, the sequence of events had little flow, and the ultimate goal of this movie was simply to show these guys were passionate. Umm, that’s not enough for me. I’d give Pirate Radio a 5/10.
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for some reaosn, this movie is not grabbing my attention..at all. though i still like phillip syemour hoffman