Closing The Ring DVD Review

"Closing The Ring" reviews

DVD

Closing The Ring

Author

anonymous

Date reviewed

2008-05-19 12:32:54

Provider

DVD Review

We fervently hope Richard Attenborough gets to make another movie - it would be too sad for words if the grand old man of British cinema were to go out on a note as low as Closing The Ring.

This dippy love story crowbars big American names (come all ye OC fans and gawp at lovely Mischa Barton), hardy perennial thesps (Peter Postlethwaite) and one forgotten pin-up (poor Neve Campbell) into a story that crosses time. In 1943, an American airman brought down in Ireland gives a gold ring to a local to return to his girlfriend back home. The story is intercut with the more recent troubles in the North. Years later Jimmy (Martin McCann) finds the ring (as well as an IRA stash). Past and present overlap as Ethel (Barton) and Teddy (Stephen Amell) get married in secret.

The story is neither believable nor moving and the imagery too simple. Attenborough has an understanding of WWII romantic movies, but the dialogue and the direction here are wooden.