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Rancid Aluminium |
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Rancid Aluminium - 1999 | 98mins | Thriller, Drama | ColourThe Production TeamDirector: Edward Thomas. Producer: Mike Parker and Mark Thomas. Script: James Hawes. (from his novel) Cinematographer: Tony Hunt. Editing: Chris Lawrence. Art Direction: Tom Pearce. Costume Design: Jeny Temime. Makeup Department: Meiner Jones-Lewis. Sound Department: Sandy MacRae. Music: John Hardy. |
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The Cast Joseph Fiennes - Sean Deeny Rhys Ifans - Pete Thompson Tara Fitzgerald - Masha Sadie Frost - Sarah Nick Moran - Harry Steven Berkoff - Mr Kant Keith Allen - Dr Jones Dani Behr - Charlie |
Plot SynopsisRancid Aluminium is a terrible mess from first-time feature director Ed Thomas, with a screenplay by James Hawes adapted from his own best selling novel. It's about a young guy Pete (Rhys Ifans) and his dodgy accountant mate Deeny (Joseph Fiennes), who, to save their failing London business, get involved with the Russian mafia. This film succeeds in getting its cast - some of the brightest and best of British character actors, young and old - to give the worst performances imaginable. Joseph Fiennes does a one-eyebrow-raised smirk, with a bad Irish accent. Tara Fitzgerald plays a beautiful Russian woman whose accent veers wildly around and appears, at some stages, to be dubbed. The plot is all over the place, eventually incomprehensible, and very, very boring. The filmmakers clearly have not the slightest interest in how the Russian mafia really look or behave, remaining content with a silly, uninteresting vodka-commercial caricature. This film wastes a lot of talent. |
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