Franklyn

 

This has been sitting on my ‘to watch’ list for a while.

So, quiet night, everyone asleep, don’t fancy anything to heavy...reviews look interesting, I’ll give it a try.

A Drama / fantasy / character study thingy, set in two ‘times’. Modern day London, and a future world gone religious mad, ‘Meanwhile City’.

The interweaving of 4 separate story arcs into a nicely packaged together finale where everything  satisfactorily ties together.

Only I did not care.

It’s a low budget British film, by first time director Gerald McMorrow.  The story is ok,  there is the recently jilted at the altar groom chasing after his childhood sweetheart, the art student staging suicide attempts for her final project, the father looking for his lost son and, in the future,  the assassin Preest  hunting cult leader known as The Individual who he missed out on once before.

The stories amble on, slowly, and eventually the seemingly unconnected come together and there is closure for the viewer.

It’s just nothing special. Rather Meh! In fact. Acting was a little off, Meanwhile city design was nice and gothic, just a little cheap looking, and the soudtrack was just lacking.

Meh! Rating 6/10