Kills On Wheels (15.)
Directed by Attila Till.
Starring Szabolcs Thuróczy, Zoltán Fenyvesi, Ádám Fekete, Mónika Balsai, Lídia Danis, Dusán Vitanovics. In Hungarian with subtitles. 103 mins.
It is Assassin week in the nation's cinemas with punters having a choice between the American not-screened-for-reviewers assassin, the Korean lady assassin (Villainess) and the Hungarian wheel chair assassin. Now, if you're me, the later is the obvious choice, in the expectation of some garish, darkly comic, high jinks. Till's feature debut though isn't particularly funny; it might be in Hungarian but whatever humour it contains isn't anything the subtitles feel like sharing. (Against that the English translation of the title is wittier than the original.)
Instead, the outlandish premise is a bit of a ruse to get us in to a film about societal outsiders. The main characters are a former fireman who is paralysed from the waist down after an accident and two youngsters who were born with their disabilities. It's a bold subject but the storytelling is too patchy and disjointed to fully engage the audience.
Directed by Attila Till.
Starring Szabolcs Thuróczy, Zoltán Fenyvesi, Ádám Fekete, Mónika Balsai, Lídia Danis, Dusán Vitanovics. In Hungarian with subtitles. 103 mins.
It is Assassin week in the nation's cinemas with punters having a choice between the American not-screened-for-reviewers assassin, the Korean lady assassin (Villainess) and the Hungarian wheel chair assassin. Now, if you're me, the later is the obvious choice, in the expectation of some garish, darkly comic, high jinks. Till's feature debut though isn't particularly funny; it might be in Hungarian but whatever humour it contains isn't anything the subtitles feel like sharing. (Against that the English translation of the title is wittier than the original.)
Instead, the outlandish premise is a bit of a ruse to get us in to a film about societal outsiders. The main characters are a former fireman who is paralysed from the waist down after an accident and two youngsters who were born with their disabilities. It's a bold subject but the storytelling is too patchy and disjointed to fully engage the audience.
