Tuesday 8 January 2013

The Impossible (2012) 7/10

Starring : Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland
Director : Juan Antonio Bayona
Running Time : 114 mins

Maria Bennett (Watts) and her husband Henry (McGregor) are on holiday in Thailand with their three sons when a tsunami hits and they are separated. Henry and the two youngest are safe, but Maria and her eldest son Lucas (Holland) are trapped in the water, with Maria having suffered an injured leg, and the two eventually get rescued by local villagers and taken to a hospital where Lucas tries to help those that are injured while his mother’s condition gets worse.

Aside from the fact that this could have easily been around fifteen minutes shorter, this wasn’t too bad a film. The performances from Watts and McGregor weren’t great, but the kid who played Lucas was pretty good and managed to play the child thrown into a very adult world to great effect.

You’ll like this if you liked : Alive



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