![]() ![]() There would be worse things to do with your summer evening than to go see this moody little crime melodrama. The story needs a flamboyant force for good to counterbalance the centripetal pull of Pinkie’s ruthless evil.Īll in all, this new Brighton Rock strikes me as a minor but effective exercise in neo-noir style. (In the novel, and as portrayed by Hermione Baddeley, she’s forever leading barroom sing-alongs and getting maudlin over mugs of stout.) Mirren delivers a powerful performance as the steel-willed, soft-hearted Ida (and gets to throw a little sexual heat at the unlikely target of John Hurt), but her character’s motivation for going to such lengths to save her new employee remains abstract. ![]() It may have been the director’s decision as much as Mirren’s to tone down Ida’s larger-than-life mannerisms. ![]() It pains me to say anything even remotely negative about Helen Mirren, but a part of me wishes she’d dug down deeper into her character’s cheerfully brazen sluttiness. ![]()
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