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Undescribable Perfection

A Disappointing Continuation

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Although the first hour is controlled and captivating, the second hour becomes script-messy, loses intensity and is too long: the movie should have been 15-20min shorter.As for John's character, though there was material, he lacks depth, his psychology and increase in power are not enough controlled, and I failed to feel strong emotions towards him.Neds can be compared to This Is England, and though the latter was a little different, I preferred it because everything was better described: script, character, psychology, message. Neds, still, is a fair movie.

i was looking forward to watching this film as the age group of the main characters where about the same age as myself(age 12 in 1974).i am also from glasgow. there are so many things that peter mullan has got wrong from this period, the use of words like bawbag and quality are patter from a latter era, i never seen a teacher smoke in class or address pupils with a fag in their mouth, one man operated buses where not in use at this time and the smoking of joints on the playground just did not exist. i don't know if peter mullan was trying to bring modern street slang and current drug use to cater for the modern viewer but it just came across as lazy research for that time and was very offputting. i am a big fan of mullan but there was no character in the film you could care for,from the start i was trying to work out what relation the girl who went to America? was (checked credits, it was his aunty)the brother went to spain?and in the space of 6 weeks he went from swot to thug. so much of the story line tried to be profound but was just messy and nonsense. i paid £3 in the supermarket for this, watched the film, then put it in the bin.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning John (Connor McCarron) excels as a child in his studies, but the rough, hard environment around him soon has an effect on his personal character and, as he grows up in 1970s Glasgow, he moulds into one of the pack, as problems at home and school breed the violent character within him, going up against the hard drinking, knife wielding thugs that are the sworn enemies of the hard drinking, knife wielding thugs he's in with.Glasgow still holds the notorious accolade of being 'the knife crime capital of Great Britain', so this could have been just as hard hitting and unflinching as it was setting out to be being a modern day drama. Instead, director Peter Mullan has presented a sprawling, overlong if I'm brutally honest, exploration of a young man's despairing, senseless dessension into mindless thuggery, possibly based on his own experiences. As a result of this, it comes off as very hard to get into to start with, lost as it is in it's own mood, atmosphere and style. But it's these same things that somehow manage to make it a more absorbing experience if you stick with it long enough, slowly drawing you into the life of this troubled character and the various ups and downs he encounters as he trawls through the rough landscape of his youth. Still, this feels like quite an undisciplined effort from Mullan, which veers into outlandish, arty moments (such as the lead character duking it out with the Lord Jesus Christ) that only serve to make it an even more alienating experience than it already is. ***

It looked good and was a fun watch, even if I couldn't find subtitles. The shift from good to bad was great but the struggle back seemed rushed and incomplete.To be perfectly honest, I believe the struggle of trying to put that old lifestyle behind would have left a much larger impact on me as I walk away from having seen this film. I don't think that showing the darker side of the violence and gangs would have been lost if it had taken half the time it did.7/10 is a little generous but in the end. I was entertained.I think I said what I needed to say but sadly I cant submit this without a certain number of sentences. It seems slightly ridiculous to me that I need to be forced to add text after saying what I came to say. Sad to think that fluff needs to be added to meet a length quota, I'm sure there is something to be said about this and the extra fluff in a lot of today's cinema as well.