with georgia taylor—brown bringing home a silver for great britain, and france in third. that's all from sportsday. from all the team here, goodnight. you can say right up to date on the bbc sport website and the app. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. i'm jane hill. and to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. hi, mark. what have you been watching? quite the mixed bag.

we havejurassic world dominion. the dinosaurs are back. we have swan song, starring german legend udo kier. and all my friends hate me. is it a comedy? is it a horror movie? dinosaurs are back. that's it. end of the review. there we go. thank you very much. thank you for watching. so, this picks up four years after fallen kingdom. man and dinosaurs must coexist because the dinosaurs are now out in the world. also co—existing are the stars of the originaljurassic park movies and the stars of the jurassic world movies. see what they've done? brought them all together, kind of big variety stage. the plot this time revolves around a sinister biotech company who are scheming to take over the world's food supplies through genetic engineering. our heroes must unite to save themselves and the world. here's a clip. we got to go. going to have to break a window

to get inside that thing. hope nobody's afraid of heights. growling both: don't move. now, did that look at all familiar to you? i mean, you know... it did a bit! 0k, fine. so, here's the thing. i mean, this basically plays like a greatest hits collection. i mean, ifa band comes onto a festival stage, you've got to play the hits, 0k. so, this the conclusion of the second trilogy and the end of the story. play the hits, do the bit when everybody looks up and is astonished. do the bit whenjeff goldblum, whose character, incidentally, makes no sense whatsoever but manages to make every single line a voyage of discovery somehow. because he's employed by the company. as far as i can tell,

he's employed simply to tell them that everything is a really, really bad idea, but get him to do that thing he does. you said when you were watching the clip, "i love sam neill." but we all love sam neill! and he has a kind of indiana jones—style hat. the problem with this is for a while, it can't decide which movie it wants to be. i mean, fora bit, it's a kind ofjames bond movie chasing around in very scenic backstreets. then for a while, it thinks it wants to be mission impossible. and there's a bit when chris pratt attempts to drive a motorbike into the back of an aeroplane. and then there's a bit which looks like it's come from austin powers with all these kind of strange sets that look very, very �*70s and a little bit shonky. and it's fine, but it's two hours long. it's — none of it makes any sense. do you remember the awe, the sense of "i've never seen this before" that you got when you saw the first? oh, yes, yes. everyone went to see it and it was the thing to see. and it was terrifying. yes, it was. it was. i mean, the velociraptor stuff was absolutely terrifying. with this, ok, the special effects are good. of course they're good.

it's a great big, expensive special effects movie. i mean, some of them are a little bit chunky, but generally great, you know, big dinosaurs. and the cast, these are big actors like this laura dern, sam neill, jeff goldblum, great. like all those people, there they are doing some stuff. and itjust kind of goes on and then it goes on and then it goes on. and then after 2.5 hours or so, it stops and you go, "yeah," you know, "i liked all those hits." i kind of wanted something more. it did feel very incoherent. it did feel like, "let's just get everyone on stage and just do some stuff." and i, funnily enough, i spoke to a colleague quite shortly afterwards, "i said, tell me the plot." and they went, "um, bio locusts, wasn't it? "jeff something? what was it?" so it's not going to linger long in the mind after you've seen it. it will, however, be huge, because it's jurassic world. yeah, but if you're saying it's fine, that's not... anyway, greatest hits, as you say. swan song — very different choice.

so, you know, must have cost less than the catering budget for one morning of jurassic world dominion. so, this is german screen legend udo kier. he's pat. he's a former hairdresser now in a retirement home, is visited by somebody from a funeral home who says rita, who was his star client who he fell out with, has asked for him to do her burial. it was left in her will. and initially, he says, and it's my favourite line, "bury her with bad hair," which is a wonderfully quotable line. then he decides that he will do it. and he walks across the town, which is sandusky in ohio, which i've never been to. and as he goes to all the old haunts, he rediscovers his old self. he picks up a hat in a store, which was a salon that he used to have. and now very much changed. he gets given a lime green suit that somehow reinvigorates him. the thing it reminded me of is there's a harry dean stanton movie called lucky, which is very melancholic, but really rather charming. and if you're an udo kierfan, which i am, a lot of the movies that he's been in, like, you know, flesh for frankenstein, they're at the more

extreme end of the spectrum. and i thought it was really lovely seeing him do something that was so poignant, so touching, so... i mean, you've seen it. did you...? i was about to use the word touching, actually. were you moved by it? we really enjoyed it. we both said, "oh, that's sad." you know, it is melancholic. we can't get away from that. but the actual story, i really liked, i really like someone looking back on their life and looking back on how much society has changed in the 70 something years they've been alive. and also, i think the whole thing about the location, sandusky, ohio, everywhere looks a little bit barren, a little bit desolate. a little bit... yes. but as he rediscovers his life, it all kind of — the surroundings come to life as well. so, it's like his presence is breathing life back into the community. and it's, i mean, it's funny in places. there are some really, really lovely moments. i thought his performance was great. i really liked it and i was very, very charmed. i didn't expect to be at all.

i'm glad that you watched it. it's a tiny little film, but it'd be nice if people would give it some attention. and eagle—eyed people will spot that linda evans is in it as well, i have to mention that. yeah. playing a key role. yes. i shall say no more. but she's in it. so, onto a british offering, all my friends hate me, which is an uncomfortable and often kind of cringe—inducing, although deliberately so. horror? comedy? is it horror? is it comedy? it's written by tom stourton and tom palmer, who were a comedy duo called totally toms. tom stourton is pete. he's just returned from abroad, round about 30. he gets invited by his old university mates to a party for him. birthday party in a posh country house. these are posh people. on the way there, it's clear that he's awkward. he's out of place. he doesn't really fit in. he has an encounter with one of the locals, which looks like it's going to go a bit straw dogs. here's a clip. what do you need to know? lost? — yes. thought as much. yeah _

the old sat nav let you down, ey? surprise, surprise. long journey? yeah. um...sort of late - for my own party, actually. yeah, it's my birthday. yeah, you need to loop back round through the red gate. bear left till you hit the lamb pub, then straight shot through dawn. and it's on your left. big iron—fronted thing. i'll remember. - thank you very much. might come join you later. yeah, well, _ i'll let the others know. cheers again. thanks. - laters. and, indeed, he may actually come and join them. so, as you can see from that, the whole thing is he's a fish out of water, he doesn't know... he's awkward. he's difficult. ha—ha, but very, very... he gets there where all his friends, as the title tells us, appear to hate him. or do they? is he being paranoid? are they all conspiring against him? and who's this bloke that they met in a pub who they've said, "oh, he's a great bloke, he's a great guy," who turns up, and seems to pete, our central character, to be actually an agent of malice,

somehow conspiring against him. and the whole thing walks on this knife edge between, is this funny or is this disturbing? or is it funny and disturbing at the same time? now, quite often when you do that, one will undercut the other or one will stop the other one from working. i thought the best thing about all my friends hate me is that it does manage to be genuinely awkward for quite a long part of its running time. it got... is that quite clever? it is clever. no, that's a very difficult balancing act. i mean, i'm sure you as well — i've seen enough horror comedies which are neither horrifying norfunny. and this isn't a horrorfilm, but there are elements of horror in it. it's not a flat—out comedy, although there are many, many laughs in it. but it's that thing about it...the awkwardness, the sense of paranoia. now, jane, i don't know about you. anyone who understands the paranoid experience of being around people and thinking, "what? what have i done? "what has everyone got against me? "do they know the thing

that i'm trying...?" that kind of hidden secret thing? and you can see all of that even in the trailer, actually. you feel quite stressed. yes, absolutely. and i think it gets that right. now, it's not perfect. you know, some bits of it work better than others. but i thought it was, as a balancing act, i thought it was very well done because that's a hard balance to maintain. yeah, intriguing. certainly intriguing. best out this week is still... well, let's embrace it. top gun maverick is really, really great. and against all expectations, because, i mean, i didn't particularly like the first top gun. i think it's better than the first one. jane, whisper it. it is — it is better than the first one. and also, you know, would it immediately, if you thought "one of my favourite films will be top gun maverick?" because it's such good fun. no, i had no idea i was going to have such a good time. i can't even explain why i enjoyed it. but it's great to look at. it's fantastic to look at. the flying scenes. i don't even think i'm particularly interested in flying, but they're just extraordinary. it's absolutely fascinating to watch.

and also, it works. i mean, the emotional beats get you. and i'm sitting there, i'm crying when i'm watching it thinking, "i'm really cross that it's making me cry, "but it's working really, really well." and tom cruise is really good in it. yes. and, yeah, it's beautifully made. and for those of us of our generation, just those strains of that wonderful, wonderful music. yeah, but it starts off with kenny loggins. it starts with kenny loggins doing them. that was it. as soon as you hear the kenny loggins, you go, "ok, that's it. fine, i'm back in again." you know, "i've got my hair has gone dark again. "i'm a lot thinner than i used to be." ijust i thought it was absolutely rip—roaringly good. let's put that on the poster — surprisingly good. quick thoughts about dvds. the duke is out on dvd. this is the stranger—than—fiction true story about the theft of a painting, great performances by jim broadbent and helen mirren. i mention this because it's directed by roger michell, whose last picture was elizabeth, a portrait in parts, which was in cinemas obviously

for thejubilee and is now available on prime video. i thought the duke was very likable and very watchable and elizabeth is a very interesting documentary. and roger michell, a great man that we lost too soon. a great loss and a very, very talented and versatile filmmaker. and i actually think those two films demonstrate that perfectly. mark, thank you so much. and that is it for this week. enjoy your cinema—going wherever you choose to go and see. see you next time. bye—bye. hello. southern and eastern parts of the best of the sunshine. that's also where we'll see most of the warmth that's going to build through the coming week. through tonight, where we have clear skies, it will turn a little bit chilly, but we'll see thicker clouds rolling in to western scotland. those temperatures

and some spots down into single digits. tomorrow, we will see cloud and patchy rain pushing and across the west and the north of scotland. the onslaught of rain from that. much of england... mix of sunny spells and top temperatures in the south up to around 21 or 22 degrees. it will be cooler, 1a in the afternoon high for stornoway. temperatures that decline for the coming week and in southern and southeastern parts, looking at highs of 31 or 32 degrees by friday. it will feel hot. always cooler further north and west.

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