Idris Elba is a great actor, so a film with him in it is going
straight on to the 'must watch' list. I can't remember where it was
that I first came across this low budget British film that stars the man
himself as a construction worker and family man in inner city London,
but the title and premise were immediately intriguing. Second Coming was
billed to refer to something to do with a child in the film, implying
that the story would be one about Elba's character's family, with a
mystical twist revolving around the biblical story of Revelation.
Well,
it isn't quite that. And though I didn't enjoy Second Coming that
much, I didn't have such a crap time as to deliberately spoil it for
anyone who might want to check it out. So I will hold back on giving
things away. What I will say though is that I find it surprising this
is a feature length film. The story of Jax and Mark and their little
confused boy JJ isn't that cinematic, and it's a long slog to get to the
'hmm - I wonder what that means...' ending.
As far as
my clear up of films I missed when they came as is going - Second
Coming is one I wouldn't have been too upset over not seeing in the
end. A review in short - not one to prioritise, as I'm sure the brevity of this post conveys.
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