'London' is a superb film that consumes it's spectator from beginning to end. The Plot line is brilliant, the directing in perfect, the look of the film is perfect. However it has some obvious flaws. The idea of two strangers stuck in a room together comparing their problems, almost competing to have the more troubled life, slowly removing their many layers of clothing and getting deeper and deeper into their psyche is pure brilliance. But perhaps Richards could've given Chris Evans' character 'Syd' a bigger problem. So he split up with his girlfriend...people are dying of Cancer! Although i do like 'Bateman's' (Jason Statham), an impotent man, because it's an issue that isn't really thought of...the effect of impotence on a relationship and on a man's ego as it literally is taking away his manhood. Also the film has many plot holes for instance where the hell does 'Syd' get his money from; to buy cocaine, and the many presents for 'London', and pay for his apartment? Also why does Isla Fisher's character have an Australian accent when she was supposed to have gone to Syd's high school and grown up in America? Most of the issues are pretty tiny anyway and can easily be overlooked. I do however think that the casting was a little off. Despite the fact that all of the actors do a grand job i feel that some of them could've been chosen better. Jason Statham acts brilliantly but i think that Bateman should have been a more 'well-spoken' character instead of a cockney. I also think that someone else should've played the part of 'London'. Jessica Biel's presence in the film, i think, makes it seem a lot more 'Hollywoody' and main stream as if Hunter Richards needed 'a name' to be in the credits. Everything i've said seems to make them film sound awful...or makes me sound pedantic...but it's not and i'm not. 'London' was a surprisingly good film to watch and i thoroughly enjoyed it, it consumed me, i felt for all of the characters and became emotionally involved. The music is perfect too. In terms of aesthetics it is perfection. It looks god, sounds good and is bloody bwilliant. Saying that, the reason i wont rate it 10 is because of films like 'The Godfather I and II' and 'Appocalypse Now' or 'Goodfellas'...they're 9's to me and i regard them as the best films ever made.
