Astonishing... went to Sunday school for 16 years and I don't remember rock monsters, ray winstone or the animals all becoming comatose as soon as they got on the arc.
1/5 film; 5/5 if stoned off your nut watching with mates.
Loved every minute of doing the latter but can't bring myself to submit that and have it on my Letterboxd record!
Despite the 2* ranking I'm glad this film exists, it just wasn't for me. I'm pretty sure that in the future this will be a full on cult classic!
It is incomprehensible that George Amponsah went from directing Hard Stop, a raw documentary in which two young men discuss the death of their friend Mark Duggan at the hands of the police, a miscarriage of justice (see Forensic Architecture’s breath-taking investigation into the IPCC case for more details) which sparked the London riots of 2011, to Gassed Up, a catastrophically unbalanced and generic look at moped gangs on the capital’s streets. The former was complex, real and painful; the…
This film is to Ferrari and motor racing what "United Passions" was to FIFA and football; an astonishingly bad and unnecessary film riddled with incredibly poor writing, casting, performances, pacing, editing and score. The 1/2 star is for the engine sounds, which I can't bring myself to describe as a saving grace because there is very little in the world which could achieve that end, aside from maybe a pre screening lobotomy.
Ferrari never quite makes it into the so-bad-its-good…
