MoViews: Danny Collings Genre: Drama Rating: R Runtime:
1hr 46 mins
Overall BAGEO Rating:
A
Direction: Dan
Fogelman
Cinematography: D
Screen Play:
Dan Fogelman
Key Actors: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Bobby Canavale
Summary: A made up story of a musician (Danny
Collins) who was very addicted to the life of tours, alcohol, drugs and women
and has lots of money, but gets
enlightenment to come back to ethical life after reading a letter
written to him by Beatles John Lennon about 30 years earlier. Whether he really turns around is a question
even at the end of the movie for me. The
story is supposed to be inspired from a real life incident of another not well
known British singer (Steve Tilston), who received a letter of John Lennon very late in
his musical career. In this movie,
that's the only true incident - rest of the movie story are all made up. The story line goes slow and as expected but
it I felt it kind of ends unexpectedly. The rest of the story is to be assumed
by the viewer based on the suggestions from Danny to his son. Al Pacino acts as the musician Danny Collins in his
remarkable usual way. His son acted by
Bobby Canavale also does well. The
movie gets good ratings from me on the nice background music scores and the
screen play/direction. However with many
drug/alcohol scenes, a couple of full (front!) nudity and abundant expletives
in the dialogues, it is only for matured adults and not for kids &
children.
Other interesting points: During the end
credits, a clip of a Steve Tilston (the inspiration for Danny Collins)
interview and a couple of newspaper headlines (that describe Tilston's finding
of the John Lennon letter) are shown.
Overall: Average for Screen Play, Story. Good for
direction, musical scores, acting
BAGEO Rating: Average - may be good if too generous.
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