Thursday 4 March 2010

Myrin (Jar City)

Pretty standard police procedural. Cop has a case, has a personal life. It's well shot, it's it curious who, though there is no particular resembelance between examples, you can alays tell nearly staright away whether that's the case?
Anyway, it goes along at a decent pace and leaves you curious for the ending. There's a few cliches, a bit of hokiness, and some rather unnecessary confusion resulting from things not being laid out clearly enough (this isn't deliberate). The characters are also not cared about deeply.
However, as we said, it's decent and well paced enough, not edge of the seat but comfortably sitting back.
It feels like one of a series of pieces about the cop, which it, surpirisingly enough, is (at least in book form). The cop characters isn't particularly engrossing, though he is at the same time a well drawn character who we simply don't get to know well enough to get TOO involved.
We don't want to have a go at this film, it treads lightly on you mind and is pretty much the definition of mildly diverting. Decent enough, that's what we can say.

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