Round-up of week’s new films

A Few Best Men

(15) 96mins

THIS UK and Australian co-produced comedy is clearly aiming to be the new Hangover. Unfortunately it fails, and fails big.

Three friends, Tom (Kris Marshall), Graham (Kevin Bishop) and Luke (Tim Draxl) travel to Australia to attend the wedding of best pal David (Xavier Samuel).

David is marrying a girl he barely knows, Mia (Laura Brent) whom he met backpacking. Turns out Mia's dad is a wealthy politician and has organised a lavish wedding at his mansion. It has all the ingredients for a successful farce – uptight posh parents, terrifying drug dealer, a much-loved animal kidnapped – but can't make them amusing.

Wedding dismay ... bride Mia (Laura Brent) and guests

Scripted by Death At A Funeral writer Dean Craig and directed by Stephan Elliott (Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert) it's not short of talent yet it waits too long before going OTT.

When it eventually does let loose and go for some big gross out laughs – like feeding a sheep laxatives – it starts to work, but it's too little too late.

Kevin Bishop is great in it though, and has the film's best moment delivering a brilliantly awkward best man speech.

RATING: TWO STARS OUT OF FIVE

Berberian Sound

(15) 92mins

IF you were to go to see this film, leave before the end and imagine how it finished – it'd be better than the final third of this otherwise spooky thriller.

Toby Jones adds some star-power to proceedings as the meek and mild Gilderoy. Arriving at an eerie film studio in 1970s Italy – having been requested by the director to record the sound effects for his shocking new horror movie – things begin to get strange.

We never see any of the harrowing film being worked on, only Gilderoy's pained expression as he's forced to watch it while throwing a marrow against the ground to simulate the sound of a woman's skull cracking open.

After much suspicious behaviour and talk of the film being hit by a curse, which can only be broken with a human sacrifice, you'd have every right to think this was leading down a Wicker Man-style route.

Instead, just as the tension reaches fever pitch, writer/director Peter Strickland appears to give surrealism a go. The final third is nonsense and in danger of resembling a Monty Python sketch at one point.

Cockneys vs Zombies

(15) 88mins

By GRANT ROLLINGS

I EXPECTED this low-budget British comic horror movie to be a load of pony and trap.

But the Babe Ruth is that it's a real Bubble Bath.

Okay, enough Cockney rhyming slang.

In simple, understandable language Cockneys Vs Zombies is good fun.

How can you not be amused to see Richard Briers with a Zimmer frame trying to outwalk a zombie?

Or Honor Blackman machine-gunning down the undead?

Generally, it is the scenes featuring OAPs vs zombies which are the most original and entertaining.

Beyond that it is the standard mass blood fest as Michelle Ryan, Harry Treadaway and Rasmus Hardiker play three siblings who discover East London has been taken over by walking corpses while they've been robbing a bank.

So, please, no sequels unless it's Mockneys Vs Zombies and the undead win.

RATING: THREE STARS OUT OF FIVE

Rec Genesis

(18) 80mins

By GRANT ROLLINGS

IN the beginning there was one of the best lost video tape movies called Rec.

Now we are on number three and it is time this subtitled Spanish horror series was banished from cinemas for the sin of not being very good.

It starts with a wedding video showing the day Clara (Leticia Dolera) and Koldo (Diego Martin) are joined in matrimony at a very lavish bash.

Thankfully, we are spared too much of the usual all-over-the-shop handicam recordings because most of the film is shot on a proper movie camera which doesn't pretend to be lost footage.

Unfortunately, that's the only break with tradition.

The rest of Rec Genesis is lots of people running and screaming while being chased by guests who have become flesh-eating zombie types.

If you can't get enough of people having their heads sawn in half, this may entertain.

Personally, I would prefer to take my chances in a biblical flood than sit through Genesis again.

RATING: ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE

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