Film Review: Never Let Me Go

What on Earth was going on in this film? I don't think I've ever seen a dystopian science fiction drama film and I have to say, it was a weird experience. It was an emotive film but at times I felt it was tedious and hard to follow and often found myself on its Wikipedia page to follow somethings I found unclear.

It has a great cast, including Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightly and led by Carey Mulligan (who was good in this but I thought she was average in The Great Gatsby). The tainted love triangle keeps the viewers yearning, although it's nothing new.

In the film, it's revealed that the main characters are clones, being reared to donate organs. It's a novice idea to me so it was slightly more interesting. It also raised an important question of why are some people more important, which I thought was cool.

Would I recommend it? Possibly if sci-fi romances are your thing. It was a nice film with pretty good acting and I wouldn't call it a waste of time.

Film Review: The Hobbit

I thought it was purely fantastic, magical and amazing. The cast was star studded, the special effects were dapper and the plot was perfect. What's not to love about this cute guy Martin Freeman?

It was the first instalment of J R Tolkien's The Hobbit, with another two to come. It's a prequel to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and follows Bilbo Baggins of Bag-End as he partake a in "an unexpected journey."

I thought that the acting was first class although Gollum scared me slightly but I found his lines humorous; "Give us a chance!" I was, however, disappointed to find that Benedict Cumberbatch only appears as a shadow as the Necromancer when I was expecting all of the cheekbones when I saw he was in it. I'll just have to hope he has a bigger part (oo-er) in the next ones.

When I get the time I'm definitely going to read the book. Does anyone have a review on it? If so I'd love to hear it.