London
London
R | 10 February 2006 (USA)
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London is a drug laden adventure that centers on a party in a New York loft where a young man is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend.

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janne-85458

Actually I found myself in that movie. This movie emerges so much what people are out there. Unfortunately this is very underrated movie. Movie where actors really acts and original Statham have real words to say. So pure love, drugs and alcohol. I just find this entertaining after four years study in one year as a start of holiday. This fits me. Recommended 100%!

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mjazzguitar-800-18970

I'm not sure if there will be any spoilers in here but I checked the box anyway in case I accidentally reveal more than I should have. I liked the movie, but there are some aspects that seemed so unrealistic that it somewhat put a damper on it for me. This guy invites a complete stranger to go to a party with him that he wasn't even invited to to begin with. It's in a super rich apartment and they go upstairs into the bathroom to do coke. The chick throwing the party doesn't even like him to begin with, yet she lets him and a stranger go upstairs and disappear for an hour? Not to mention she doesn't want people doing coke in her apartment. Nobody knocks on the door and asks to use the bathroom? Sure, maybe there was more than one, but at parties people have to relieve themselves all the time, and will use the other one if the first one is occupied. Usually there's a line of people waiting. Another thing is they have an enormous pile of blow on a painting on the sink and they're not concerned about someone coming along? It's not like you can pick up a huge pile of powder and just stuff it in a baggy in a couple of seconds. And you never see them picking it back up before going downstairs. And that giant window in the bathroom- I know it had an okay view and everything, but no curtains? Maybe I'm getting picky in my old age.

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Asif Khan (asifahsankhan)

Directed by Hunter Richards - it's okay if you don't know him. "London" is kinda' like the real inside story of two straight dudes shooting the wrath out of their sexual and emotional impotence inside a studio- sized bathroom, has almost the feel of adult film actors preparing themselves before the makings of a great dude flick. (Just kidding)Syd (Chris Evans) and Bateman (Jason Statham) as they pace the floor of a bathroom at a Manhattan party, inhaling untold amounts of cocaine. Syd also guzzles tequila from a bottle. He met Bateman in a bar and insisted the older man, a Brit, accompany him to the party. He needed someone along for moral support because it was a going- away party for his girlfriend, London (Jessica Biel), and Syd wasn't invited. After I got to know Syd, I was not surprised that he wasn't invited, and I was not surprised that she was going away.Let's track back a little shall we? When we first see Syd, he has just treated himself to cocaine and the remains of a beer, and passed out in his apartment. The phone rings, he learns about the party, uses the f-word for the first of, oh, several hundred times and smashes up the place, including a big aquarium. Curious, that when the aquarium shatters, there are no shots of desperate fish gasping on the floor. Maybe Nemo has already led them to freedom.At the party, Syd and Bateman get relentlessly stoned while discussing the kinds of tiresome subjects that seem important in the middle of the night in a bar when two drunks analyse the meaning of it all. Bartenders have been known to drink in order to endure these conversations. They usually consist of the two drunks exchanging monologues. During the parts when sober people would be listening, drunks are waiting until they get to talk again. Syd and Bateman are powerless over dialogue and their scenarios have become unmanageable.There are personal confessions. Syd relates his unhappy romance with London, and we get flashbacks of them fighting, loving, talking, weeping and running through all the other exercises in Acting 101. Bateman was married once but it didn't work out.Need something to humour on? Syd is amazed that Bateman pays $200 to be treated in such a way, although I am not sure if he is amazed it is so much or so little.Insight is slim here—just your run-of-the-mill S&M fantasies, stoner conversations about the existence of God, and Syd's inability to say "I love you"—but Richards spikes the script with some funny one- liners (their utter randomness suggests they were collected on bar napkins over the years) and makes hilarious use of Evans's tattooed, exposed flesh. Statham on the other end is also impressive. Good to see the actor in some real emotional mess. You'd be more amazed to see Statham with the hair though, more-so than he's good acting performance.Overall, this is a pretty emotional flick (both guy/chick). Anyone who's been through some rough love/lust escapade will surely understand this film.Two things mystify me. (1) How can you use that much cocaine and drink that much booze and remain standing and keep speaking, especially in the case of Syd, who was already stoned when he started? (2) Where is the camera? At least half of the movie is shot in the bathroom, which has a mirror along one wall. The mirror should be reflecting a camera, but I didn't see one.

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SnoopyStyle

Syd (Chris Evans) is depressed over his ex London (Jessica Biel). They were together for 2 and a half years having broken up 6 months ago. He crashes her going away party. He brings along drug dealer banker Bateman (Jason Statham). Rebecca (Isla Fisher) is throwing the party for her friend. Maya (Kelli Garner) and Mallory (Joy Bryant) talk to Syd as he recalls his life with London. George (Dane Cook) is a smart mouthed party goer. A big fight blows up the party and Syd ends up talking to London.I don't know why Statham has that hair piece. What's the point? It is horribly distracting. Chris Evans also has ugly hair but there's a reason for that. These are annoying, unlikeable, drugged up beautiful people talking about random drug induced stories. Sometimes the weird stuff can be funny like Statham's but the bickering is mostly annoying. Statham gives the most compelling performance. Syd and London's life together is unimaginative. They have bad chemistry. Also the movie is too stationary. Writer/director Hunter Richards needs to learn to add movement even in long dialog scenes.

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