We Shall See…

Cinema empty - felt like a A or B list celebrity, or a member of some obscure royal family!

And while I am always to a certain extent impressed whenever a film is put together Charlie Wilson’s War was almost certainly to get me right in the heart.

There were many good things about the film. Let’s start with, oh I don’t know, the screenplay? No. How can any words I put together even begin to try to praise it? You already know I think Aaron Sorkin rules the mother freakin’ world and does the writing equivalent of walking on water so there really isn’t much more I can say on that.

The surprising thing. The genuinely surprising thing for me. Hugely massively blah blah blah etc etc surprising thing was, well, Tom Hanks was… good. I mean, what he hell? Does this mean I’m going to have to come down off my high horse and entertain the fac that possibly maybe I may have been not exactly right about him? That’s got to be a mistake! Right? He made the words sing/work. And by work I mean they flew. How the ever living hell did the Coen’s win the Globe? That must be one hell of a script! (Sorry! Really that’s it! I promise!) But even leaving the script to one side he really got me. He made me genuinely laugh in the comedy moments; in the serious moments he had me listening, really listening. Like Will Smith in I am Legend when he had tears in his eyes so did I. (The scene near the end when he fails to get funding for the rebuild of a school in Afghanistan!)… And except for the fact that thee was a little too much Hank’s nipple-age on the screen it was damn near perfect. Wow, that felt weird.

I could dribble on about Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julia Roberts but we all know how good they are. They played their parts to the high standard that we expect. I would like to suggest a bravery award for Julia for putting a safety pin near her eye (to separate her eyelashes post mascara application). Amy Adams was also outstanding, playing Charlie’s long standing assistant with exactly the right tone.

I felt a chill, as I was supposed to, during the scene where Charlie and Gust (PSH) are discussing what’s happening to Afghanistan now the Russian’s have gone. Gust says that a lot of crazies are flooding in and there is a very deliberate sound of a low flying jumbo jet.

I get the feeling this film is going to be one I’ll be pushing on people. A lot. So… see it, se it, see it, see it, see it…

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