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My Name Is Modesty [DVD]

DVD ~ Alexandra Staden
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  • Actors: Alexandra Staden, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Raymond Cruz, Fred Pearson
  • Directors: Scott Spiegel
  • Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, German, Italian, Spanish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Jun 2006
  • Run Time: 75 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000EMGHCE
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 54,596 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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This slick and groovy film was born in the pages of a comic by Peter O'Donnell. An orphan who was raised by a corrupt casino owner, Modesty Blaise is no stranger to a life of crime. In a room full of thugs, she will readily outfight, outsmart, and outsleuth any of them. That is, until a longtime enemy kills her surrogate father and threatens to take control of the casino. By using any means necessary, Modesty must overpower the villains, like the monomaniacal female assassin in Quentin Tarantino's artful KILL BILL. Not surprisingly, Tarantino presents this kick-ass action adventure.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A two star movie on a three-star DVD, 19 Nov 2008
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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My Name is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure is a real curiosity, a quickie shot in Eastern Europe in what looks like a couple of weeks mostly on one studio set with a no-name cast and the odd bit of stock footage (most notably from A Bridge Too Far) simply because Quentin Tarantino had spent so much time NOT writing his once-vaunted Modesty Blaise movie that Miramax faced losing the rights if they didn't film something fast. As contractual obligation flicks go it's probably better than Roger Corman's `lost' 1994 version of The Fantastic Four, but it still feels like the kind of Harry Alan Towers flick that premieres on an airplane.

Fans of Peter O'Donnell's books or the comic strip won't find much they'll recognise here - no Willie Garvin for a start, no Network, no spyjinks (it's an origin story) - and anyone hoping for something like the stylised design of Joseph Losey's failed crack at the character will be similarly disappointed. So will action fans: this is mostly talk, with even the final shootout taking place offscreen while Alexandra Staden and her stunt double rather less than enthusiastically take on Nicolaj Coster-Waldau's bad guy who's killed her dodgy casino owner boss and is now holding the staff hostage. Instead, most of the film is taken up with Staden and Coster-Waldau playing roulette. If she wins, he releases a hostage. If he wins, she, er, tells him the story of her life in a series of visibly underfunded flashbacks.

Still, with a lean 78-minute running time and for fans this prequel to the books does get most of the backstory right even if it updates it to the 90s. It's just a shame they couldn't do that and make something that was good in the process. An excellent set of DVD extras, though.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Quick and dirty, 12 Oct 2009
By T. Krings "thorstenkrings2" (düsseldorf) - See all my reviews
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The film My Name is Modesty is based around an episode that takes up about one page in the 10th modesty Blaise novel called Night of the Morningstar. It describes an incident in which the young Modesty (17 in the book, mid twenties in the film)asserts her leadership in a war over a casino. As this is set before the actual Blaise adventures her trusted sidekick Willi Garvin is not in the film. That is one of the main problems as the relationship between Blaise and Garvin was certainly always one of the fascinating aspects of the novels and the long running comic strip. The other problem is that the film is quite simply incredibly boring because it really is just one small episode blown up into a screenplay. The casting is okay but Alexandra Staden is not really convincing as the heroine and actually too old for the role to play the young Modesty. I get the impression that this film was a quick and dirty solution as not to lose the rights to the Blaise franchise.

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