The Rise (2012)
The Rise (2012)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:44:37 | 6,65 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps | Subs: English SDH
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:44:37 | 6,65 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps | Subs: English SDH
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Rowan Athale
Stars: Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon, Timothy Spall
Battered, bruised and under arrest, Harvey Miller (Luke Treadaway) sits in a police interview room facing interrogation. Clutching a stack of eyewitness statements, Detective Inspector West (Timothy Spall) has no doubt in Harvey's part in a foiled robbery, and his subsequent attempted murder of local businessman Steven Roper. Denying everything, Harvey agrees to tell his version of events in full. We take in his release from prison a month earlier, and the malevolent, unjust act that put him in there. We see his emotional reunion with his sibling-like best friends, and the immovable loyalty they have for one another. We see the rekindling of a lost love, a second chance for two people meant for each other. We see the ingenious planning of the ill-fated robbery, the amazing twist, the shocking outcome and the real driving force behind it - retribution. What unfolds is an exhilarating, moving and hilarious story of loyalty, jealousy, friendship, revenge and the pursuit of happiness.
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Also Known As: Wasteland (2012)
The Rise (2012)
I got to catch this at TIFF (My first film ever seen at the festival) and loved it. Great story, pacing, soundtrack, cinematography, writing, acting and direction. First-time writer-director Rowan Athale gets it right. My only problem was that he tries to do too much in his debut. What he does is great, but if he had tried to maybe do less in terms of covering the norms of heist and crime films, i.e. the ____ steps of committing a crime successfully. That's it. Timothy Dalton and Luke Treadway have great back and forth dialogue, and just when you think the film is over and you have unanswered questions, your questions are answered and you are given more of the brilliant story, and a great ending that perfectly ties up everything.
I'm not sure if this will appeal to North American audiences, but it looks like it could be a huge hit in the UK. I loved it, and I highly recommend it.IMDB Reviewer
The Rise (2012)
The Rise is a small Brit crime flick that manages to invoke the feeling of Mike Leigh and Guy Ritchie in one fell swoop as it spins its yarn of a young man fresh out of jail, and ready to take revenge against those that conspired to put him behind bars. Putting its best foot forward, The Rise opens with a framing device that benefits from its simplicity, where detective Timothy Spall and young, bruised Luke Treadaway sit in an interrogation room, discussing the events that have already occurred, naturally trailing off into the bulk of the film from the perspective of the storyteller at that point. Young Harvey returns to his town after a stint behind bars, and finds little has changed, his friends Iwan Rheon, Matthew Lewis and Gerard Kearns still hang around doing nothing, shouting at each-other as they spin wheels, Harvey's lover seems to have waited for him, whilst local crime boss Neil Maskell's tight grip on the town's underbelly remains there. But Harvey has an idea, along with a potential business proposal from a friend in jail, to shake up the town, and take revenge on Maskell's Roper for putting him behind bars.
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After the film's grey, wet, miserable, kitchen-sink feeling dramatic opening, we are ingratiated into the world of four young folk plotting a robbery, and suddenly the wheel-spinning characters drop their bored, generational issues and become a much more enjoyable group of kids preparing for the greatest crime in the local area. Spending most of their time plotting and preparing in a local wasteland, we are allowed to see an extremely intricate plot to steal money from a safe in a local royal legion club, which contains illicit money from Roper's criminal misdoings, and montages of set-ups and investigations of the local area around the club. It's Ocean's Eleven but set in grey, wet Leeds, and with much more use of the f-word.
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As the film plays out its stylish second act, it finds ways to bring in the emotional state of each of the four characters, and where they are both in life and in relation to the heist they are planning, whilst never slowing down the momentum of the preparation of the robbery, no mean feat indeed, and after a little bit more focus on Harvey, we move to act three. The heist. It feels like everything here happens far too quickly, both in relation to the film's structure and in the act itself, meaning we are lost in the action, whilst all four characters know what they are doing, we are just making presumptions based on what we've seen. But then, after all that, we see a face-off between Harvey and Roper that prepares us for catharsis and a classic end-of-film fight.
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The Rise doesn't offer what you expect at all, once you've settled in for a more dramatic film about a young man returning home to find his friends and lover, it becomes a heist flick, and when you're prepared to watch an exciting heist, no matter how low the stakes, and get the conventional third act from that, The Rise twists and turns further from where you anticipated its direction at every step. It can be annoying as you watch to not get a clear sense of catharsis on viewing, but as the film plays out and each different twist plays out, it leads to an utterly satisfying and exciting conclusion, one you may appreciate long after viewing rather than immediately, and one that makes you want to re-watch the entire film to see how it affects your viewing.
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The Rise is a well made, stylish and exciting Brit indie that uses its great cast well, is enjoyably scripted and often cracks very funny jokes, and ultimately leaves you fulfilled and appreciative of UK cinema. It's popcorn cinema pitched at a slightly higher level, with elements of kitchen sink drama as much as elements of a Lock, Stock flick throughout, and Luke Treadaway is doing possibly his best work yet leading the film. Interesting and original enough to warrant visiting, The Rise is an enjoyable crime caper with more brains than your usual fare, and much more character work than you might expect. Well worth your time.
The Rise (2012)
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- Cast Interviews (25:08)
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