Film Review : Prince Caspian & Hitman

Ok so one Cinema trip and one DVD viewing.  Cinema 1st

Prince Caspian.

Ok, so the first Narnia film was good, a well known story and great film-making, this one was a step into the unknown.  Having only ever read “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” all of the other films were going to be more interesting to me and this one, having read the reviews, was more up my street, “Darker and more battles” seemed to be the theme running through the various reports in the papers and online.  So the question is what did I think???  Well this film was completely spot on, we have the new character, Prince Caspian along with the 4 kids from the first film, rumours had been going round about some kind of friction between the actors playing Caspian and Peter over who was the lead actor and you could almost feel it coming through the screen.  Obviously this is a crucial part of the story with Peter having been High King expecting to lead and Prince Caspian who has drawn an army together himself also expecting to lead.  The film is long, around two and a half hours, however the time seemed to fly past and it certainly did not seem time when the credits rolled.  Without going into the details of the story, the next film “Voyage of the Dawn Treader” should continue the story of Narnia and is scheduled for May 7th 2010, a long time to wait.  I think that off the back of these 2 films, reading the whole series is something that for me is now long overdue.

Hitman.

Hmmmm, for me a computer game tie-in to a film is always something to be avoided.  A Film tie-in to a computer game is not always a good move.  This time round, hmmmmm, not too bad.  Timothy Olyphant plays the title character of Agent 47, a child trained to be one of a group of perfect assassins.  The action in the film is non-stop as Agent 47 tries to uncover why a man he whos he has killed is apparently still alive, whilst being pursued by the FSB (Russian Special Police) and by one dedicated Interpol agent.  Agent 47 finds himself in running gun battles with both of these forces as well as other members of his “Organisation” that appear to want him dead.
Overall an entertaining film, not quite up there as something I would say “You have to watch this” but significantly better than your average game tie-in film.  One to Rent.