Review: Noah (2014)
Principal Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Emma Watson
The first thing that it is important to note about Noah is the fact that the marketing team have done a great job in portraying the film as something it quite honestly is not. While many will see trailers like the one above and think your getting the atypical blockbuster disaster movie but Noah is a completely different beast completely. As you might expect from Darren Aronofsky instead we are presented with an intense character study of Russell Crowe's Noah, with a bit of scale added in for good measure. While it's an interesting question of how effectively letting his own race die is an interesting concept but the problem comes in the length of the film where by the time Crowe really gets into this eventuality half for audience will be ready to pack up, having already seen the flood they were promised. That's unfortunate for Crowe who is impressive in the title role, however the first hour could easily have been cut down (I for one would be interested to see the much talked about studio cut of the film). As for the rest of the cast its a decisively mixed bunch, Emma Watson continues to impress post-Potter and its always nice to see Anthony Hopkins stretch his acting legs but Douglas Booth and Logan Lerman (A shame not to see him spark up his superb chemistry with Watson from Perks of Being a Wallflower) make little impression. And thus we come to Ray Winstone, while a superbly menacing villain I couldn't help get the feeling that an international audience may have a few problems with growling accent. So proceed with care if your expecting just your average blockbuster, and it goes without saying this is probably not for someone with an aversion to religion, but as a character study it is a perfectly acceptable film with some superb set pieces. Shame your nodding off before things really get interesting...
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