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TIFF 2009 Day 3: Ian Fitzgibbon’s Perrier’s Bounty

I was hoping for something original a la In Bruges, what we have here with Ian Fitzgibbon’s Perrier’s Bounty is much of the same stuff we’ve seen before: find money within 24 hours and have goons chase you around town issuing death threats.

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Too bad. You’d think the trifecta of vets Brendan Gleeson and Jim Broadbent and a desperate looking Cillian Murphy would make this crime romp into a tad more passable. I was hoping for something original a la In Bruges, what we have here with Ian Fitzgibbon’s Perrier’s Bounty is much of the same stuff we’ve seen before: find money within 24 hours and have goons chase you around town issuing death threats. Too dependent on drunken sailor’s lingo, lame comedy elements, uninteresting romantic story-line and swinging motions a la Tiger Woods, this feels recycled and quickly forgettable. Full review coming soon. 

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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