Title - 100 Streets
Type - Feature Fiction
Genre - Drama
Director - Jim O'Hanlon
Country - United Kingdom
This film reminds me a lot of For Coloured Girls (2010) only that it's much better done, which says a lot about Tyler Perry's film given I have tons of reservations about 100 Streets. The style here is the use of parallel storylines unfolding simultaneously with one eventual point of convergence - one left for the audience to decipher.
The film starts slowly building on the different stories happening concurrently and, if you lack God-like patience like myself, chances are that you will turnoff the movie ten minutes in. Necessarily so, the film builds its tempo to a fairly decent script that brings out a number of themes mostly subliminally; teenage life, peer pressure, marriage life, couple life, celebrity life and so on. I like the director's style which in many ways is akin to my own - subtlety over literal action - which makes the film all the more palatable especially given its slow start.
At first one may think they are watching a television series only to realise that its one of those films that require time for a gradual build-up. To be fair this film could have been better as a straight-to-DVD release, I honestly do not see how most movie lovers would have sat-out the draggy intro in a cinema. A good film to watch perhaps with your girlfriend or boyfriend AT HOME cuddling over a coffee and even then one of you may fall asleep, that said this is one of the special interest films few would love and most would loathe. I actually watched it because it had sat too long in my coffers along with many others still waiting for that fateful day when I'll decide to watch them.
Idris Elba pulls off a struggling performance in this one and, as it were, one not convincing enough to absolve the film from it's glitchy script.
Rating - 3/5 stars
Review by Robert Mũnũku
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Type - Feature Fiction
Genre - Drama
Director - Jim O'Hanlon
Country - United Kingdom
This film reminds me a lot of For Coloured Girls (2010) only that it's much better done, which says a lot about Tyler Perry's film given I have tons of reservations about 100 Streets. The style here is the use of parallel storylines unfolding simultaneously with one eventual point of convergence - one left for the audience to decipher.
The film starts slowly building on the different stories happening concurrently and, if you lack God-like patience like myself, chances are that you will turnoff the movie ten minutes in. Necessarily so, the film builds its tempo to a fairly decent script that brings out a number of themes mostly subliminally; teenage life, peer pressure, marriage life, couple life, celebrity life and so on. I like the director's style which in many ways is akin to my own - subtlety over literal action - which makes the film all the more palatable especially given its slow start.
At first one may think they are watching a television series only to realise that its one of those films that require time for a gradual build-up. To be fair this film could have been better as a straight-to-DVD release, I honestly do not see how most movie lovers would have sat-out the draggy intro in a cinema. A good film to watch perhaps with your girlfriend or boyfriend AT HOME cuddling over a coffee and even then one of you may fall asleep, that said this is one of the special interest films few would love and most would loathe. I actually watched it because it had sat too long in my coffers along with many others still waiting for that fateful day when I'll decide to watch them.
Idris Elba pulls off a struggling performance in this one and, as it were, one not convincing enough to absolve the film from it's glitchy script.
Rating - 3/5 stars
Review by Robert Mũnũku
Instagram - @nairobifilmgeek
Email - nairobifilmgeek@gmail.com
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