Rancid Aluminium
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{{Infobox film
| name = Rancid Aluminium
| image =
| caption =
| producer = Mark Thomas and Mike Parker
| director = Ed Thomas
| writer = James Hawes
| starring = Rhys Ifans
Joseph Fiennes
Tara FitzGerald
Sadie Frost
Steven Berkoff
Olegar Fedoro
Keith Allen
Dani Behr
Andrew Howard
Nick Moran
Brian Hibbard
Steve Speirs
Pete Davies
| studio = Ballpark Productions
| cinematography = Tony Imi
| editing = Chris Lawrence
| distributor = Entertainment Film Distributors (UK and Ireland)
Trimark Pictures (USA & Canada)
Good Machine International (International)
| released = {{Film date|2000|01|20|UK|df=y}}
| runtime = 91 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = $12,000,000
| gross = $4,300,000
}}
Rancid Aluminium is a film based on the 1998 novel of the same name by James Hawes. It was released on January 21, 2000.
Cast
Critical reception
Reviews of Rancid Aluminium were strongly negative. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian said: "This film succeeds in getting its cast - some of the brightest and best of British character actors, young and old - to give the worst performances imaginable... The plot is all over the place, eventually incomprehensible, and very, very boring."[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jan/21/culture.reviews3 Rancid Aluminium].
The Guardian 21 January 2000. Retrieved 5 February 2000. Cosmo Landesman, writing in The Sunday Times also gave the film a negative review, describing the film as "a stupid, unfunny and self-satisfied film that should be avoided at all costs".Cosmo Landesman, "Rancid Aluminium", The Sunday Times, 23 January 2000. Anne Billson of The Sunday Telegraph found the film confusing and derivative: "I couldn't even work out where the film is supposed to be set. Isn't that Portobello Road? Why is Tara Fitzgerald talking about Exeter? And how in hell did we get to this cricket pavilion? Director Ed Thomas appears to have been aiming for the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels crowd, but misses by several billion miles."Anne Billson, "Rancid Aluminium", The Sunday Telegraph, 23 January 2000. Some years later, Hawes himself described his own adaptation as "a terrible screenplay".{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/aug/26/books.booksnews |title=BBC's drama king turns to satire of a lost England |newspaper=The Guardian |first=Vanessa |last=Thorpe |date=26 August 2007 |accessdate=17 October 2018}}
Discussing Rancid Aluminium in an article on British cinema, Jacques Peretti gave an equally harsh assessment: "In many ways, Rancid Aluminium is beyond criticism because it is very hard, even after several viewings, to work out what the hell is going on" and that it was "incomprehensible and deeply lacklustre in all departments."[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/may/26/1 Shame of a Nation]. Jacques Peretti, The Guardian. 26 May 2000. Retrieved 5 February 2014. Noting the film's negative reception, Peretti went on to argue: "By universal consent, it is the worst film ever made in the UK."
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0179443|title=Rancid Aluminium}}
- {{rotten-tomatoes|rancid_aluminum}}
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