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| October 8 2000 | |
| Love Honor and Obey | |
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Love Honor and Obey is in very poor taste. It's nasty, vitriolic and not redeemable in any way shape or form. It's absolutely full of thoroughly unlikable characters who giggle while they torture one another and it will leave most viewers feeling very cold. It's also self indulgent, in that it looks like a film the actors had a good time making, but I don't know that they would particularly like the finished product. Bad karaoke didn't help. Love Honor And Obey is a British film in the tradition of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels but without any of the latter's light touch. Love…. tells of Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller), a postman who wants to get into the gangster business. He sees his old friend Jude (Jude Law) who gets him in with the North London lot which is under the control of Ray (Ray Winstone). Jonny gets bored with proceedings and with barely a breath hots proceedings up by taking on the rival South London mob who are lead by Sean (Sean Pertwee). You may have noticed the confluence of names. As well as using their own first names the dialogue was largely left to the actors to figure out within the framework of the story, as was done in Blair Witch. But of course what all of these films really try to ape is Tanantino's landmark Pulp Fiction. However one of the reasons Pulp Fiction was so successful (apart from the fact that it had a script) was that we genuinely liked a lot of the characters. No such luck with Love Honor And Obey. But luckily I emerged from the cinema and encountered a number of absolutely delightful Torres Strait Islander or Kiwi women in full song in the car park! Much, much, much better than awful karaoke. Two mucky maggots. |
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