London Film

The London film funded film I watched was a short called 'Chick or Treat,' it was part of the 2015 slate.

The main characters were played by the three lads who played 'Mandem on the wall' from 'Youngers' and they went on to create 'Wall of Comedy,' a sketch based group who made short videos that their target audience of young people from South London could relate to.

'Chick or Treat' is based on two lads friendship being at jeopardy as one is unsure whether to put his friend first or a girl, for his own pleasure. As Jay struggles to get into her block of flats due to a group of lads whom beat him up regularly he constructs a plan to use his friend. His friend wished to have one last halloween together before they were really too old and went their separate ways. But at first Jay turns down Percy for this girl but once he realises he needed him to see her, it's like he was replaced by a new friend called D.

Altogether this film is a comedy but also social realism as it touches realistic subjects in a comedic manor. Truly heart warming to see  this coming of age film come together.

The full film is below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bST9l6zsC8w

The Bourne Legacy 

Released in 2012 'The Bourne Legacy' was meant to be a spin off from the originals where Jason Bourne a brainwashed assassin. Jeremy Renner plays an assassin, known as Aaron Cross, who was part of the same programme Jason Bourne was a participant of. Starting in a multi linear structure we watch Aaron undergo a training programme and how the CIA deal with the world finding out their involvement with Jason Bourne before seeing how they react, their plan was to kill off every specimen and pause the programme but keep the data so that the world will never find out what they were really up to.

Tony Gilroy was the director and co-wrote this with Dan Gilroy, while Universal Pictures was the big production company 'The Bourne Legacy' received a budget of $125,000,000 and during it's highly anticipated opening weekend was able to produce $38,142,825.

Although this film won an ASCAP award for best box office film and it truly was a good film, I just couldn't see past the fact that in a Bourne film Matt Damon was not the main character even when it seemed his character was mentioned or had a part to play every 5 minutes. Yes Jeremy Renners performance was good , can't knock him for taking on such a big role and doing it well, but some performances cannot beat the original in my opinion.

The trailer link is below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paVLyvA5S1g