The film's repetitive structure never quite resolves into something we can properly engage with, especially when a somewhat heavy-handed message rears its head.
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08/01/08
Cass (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 7
Rotten:7
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews for Cass
1 - 14 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
This is an engaging, well made and sharply written British drama that is definitely worth seeing. Great soundtrack too.
08/01/08
There isn't, in fact, a single off-key performance in what is otherwise an ordinary film.
08/01/08
When Anozie isn’t delivering a tired voiceover about honour on the terraces, we’re treated to rubbish fights, feeble dialogue and mockney accents. Dreadful.
08/01/08
What follows is your standard footy ruck saga - stabbings, jail, love of a good woman.
08/01/08
A mature take on this most contentious of issues, and quite possibly the best film on the subject in 20 years.
08/01/08
It is a bit better than many recent lipsmacking movies on similar subjects... but there's still the same self-serving, self-sentimentalising macho nonsense.
08/01/08
Top Critic Inanimate dialogue and plodding pacing don’t give the talented cast much to work with, and the camera is directed with all the grace of a pub brawl at closing time.
08/01/08
Top Critic Cass has more heart than your average hooligan flick, but it's a clumsy, compromised film, hamstrung by its own redemptive structure and too infatuated with its protagonist to take an objective point of view.
07/31/08
A fair effort which does nothing to beat it's way out of a crowded genre.
07/31/08
Top Critic Though the narrative is saggy and you feel there’s nowhere left to go after the first hour, a much-needed dash of class from Jon S Baird’s direction helps lift ‘Cass’ above its oft-reactionary genre brethren.
07/31/08
A sharp look back at the Thatcher years matched by an edgy script and shocking mindless violence
07/31/08
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