Dir: Steven Knight
2013
**
Hummingbird is beautifully directed, whether it's under the neon lit roof-top bars or the street light Soho back streets, every shot is full of colour and well composed. Maybe it's just a little bit too pretty, the word overcompensation springs to mind. On paper the story sounds great but the reality is that it just doesn't work. There is nothing wrong with the cast as such, what is wrong is London and how it's falsely portrayed. Shop keepers do not shout about their special offers in the streets, it isn't just homelessness and City bankers either, and where are the crowds, where is the traffic? You certainly can't hide in London and Soho isn't that big. London is an integral part of the story so this really matters. The emotional parts of the film are poorly handled too, what is supposed to be a big plot twist barely warrants the raising of an eyebrow, the characters are contrived caricatures of people that don't actually exist and they certainly don't evoke sympathy or respect. An hour in and I had completely lost interest. It does look pretty though!
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