Tuesday 3 June 2014

East is East
Dir: Damien O'Donnell
1999
**
I know films have got to make money but I felt the integrity of this story was damaged by the fact that they compromised the story to try to be a little more 'The Full Monty'. British film really was feeble in the mid to late 90's because it tried so hard to please the wrong audiences. What should have been a revealing comedy of culture clash turned out to be just that little bit better then an amateur dramatics society take on a Carry On film but with badly timed serious bits thrown in to wake you up now and again. It's not without charm and I like all the actors involved but it was overrated then and has been long since forgotten for good reason.

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