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You're Dead [DVD] [1999]
 
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You're Dead [DVD] [1999]

DVD ~ John Hurt
2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: John Hurt, Claire Skinner, Rhys Ifans, Barbara Flynn, John Benfield
  • Directors: Andy Hurst
  • Writers: Andy Hurst
  • Producers: Jan Sebastian Ballhaus, Marco Weber, Michael Hurst, Miggel, Robin Hill
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Entertainment in Video
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Mar 2000
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004TBUG
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41,428 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Anthony Hurst's interestingly flawed You're Dead aspires to being an elegant clockwork thriller, but gets bogged down along the way in various sorts of laddishness. As a second-generation gangster keen to prove himself, Rhys Ifans works a bit too hard at being a likable psychotic, and David Schneider's ingratiating puppy-dog eyes get used too much. John Hurt is extraordinary, though, as the burned-out case of a safe-cracker 20 years into a life stretch for a murder he didn't do, whom the others free from jail to help them in a robbery. We know from the start that things went horribly wrong and that young Jo (Claire Skinner) is the only surviving hostage--we also know that this has something to do with the rivalry between the old-style brutal corrupt cop Badger (John Benfield) and the woman forensic psychologist who has taken over the investigation. You're Dead has wit, surprises and some inventively unpleasant violence working for it, but never quite hangs together. On the DVD: the disc includes extensive interviews with the cast, and the writer-director, in which everyone talks illuminatingly about how much fun it was to work on the film; these overlap heavily with the material in a "making-of" documentary. --Roz Kaveney

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16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Pro Logic English
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pulp Fiction meets The Usual Suspects., 15 Dec 2000
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With a wacky, in-your-face attitude, the London crime thriller You're Dead... is extremely watchable and engaging. Its colourful, high-energy characters and continuous twists and turns keep the audience entertained from start to finish ... even if it's all rather derivative. The story unfolds in flashbacks as investigators sift through the carnage of a bank heist gone horribly wrong. As the sole survivor (Claire Skinner) describes the events to a police psychologist (Barbara Flynn) and a hot-headed inspector (John Benfield), we see the big plan. Eddie (Notting Hill's Rhys Ifans) wants to stage a caper for the history books, in memory of his dad (Rayner Bourton), who staged the infamous Casino Job of 1977 with the notorious thief Maitland (the always-marvellous John Hurt). So Eddie and his partner Ian (David Schneider) get Maitland and plan to rob a seriously huge London bank. And it's more than just Eddie's delusions of grandeur that cause things to go very, very wrong. The film's structure is clearly based on The Usual Suspects, with flashbacks that can't necessarily be trusted, little bits of information revealed along the way that reinterpret the action and characters who are never who they seem to be. But writer-director Andy Hurst also steals liberally from the likes of A Clockwork Orange (harsh violence, anachronistic costumes, very dark comedy) and Pulp Fiction (out-of-sequence narrative, colourful characters). Even so, it's entertaining and frequently very funny, never pausing to let you see the holes in the plot. Some of the story's many twists are clever, but others are easily predicted or utterly pointless. And the acting is a bit uneven, not always treading that fine line between comedy and thriller. Hurt and Ifans are terrific, but most of the others overplay their parts badly. Yes, it's loud and overdone ... but it's also pretty good fun, in an unhinged sort of way.
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1.0 out of 5 stars STINKER, 4 Aug 2004
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This is quite simply one of the absolute worst films I have ever seen. The plot is ludicrous, derivative of many other vastly better films, and makes no sense. The acting and characterisation vary between mediocre and excruciating. Before you waste your money by buying this film, ask yourself why hardly anyone has ever heard of it. Could it be because it was such rubbish that it was not released in cinemas, not given previews etc, and went straight to subscription TV? Don't just save your money, save 100 minutes of your life by not watching this drivel.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Your're Dead: Better dead than watching this, 1 Jun 2007
What a superb cast. What a terrible movie. I yearn for good British cinema, but how can we support more funding and better tax breaks when compost like this jumps through all the funding hoops.
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