Hard Boiled Eggs & Nuts

Film number two; Stan & Ollie had such great potential but we don't feel it was reached. The whole film felt sadly underwhelming. The positives however, were Steve Coogan and John C. Reily who were masterful in their portrayal of the lead characters, and Shirley Henderson and Nina Arianda who ironically provided the humour in an otherwise fairly dull film.

In our opinion because the film started at the end of their career it almost assumed an existing knowledge and relationship between us the viewer and the characters, and therefore never attempted to develop them further leaving them a little two dimensional.
It is definitely worth mentioning that there was a noticeably older audience watching this film, many of whom were laughing throughout, and there were indeed moments where it really felt like watching Laurel and Hardy.

We will give each film we see a score out of 10 for overall enjoyment.

Stan & Ollie = 6

One thing we did discover was, there is a limit to how many films you can pre-book at one time. We had four booked for one day but were unable to book anymore so it would seem this is the limit.

The card we have is £17.90 per month for a minimum of 12 months or a one off payment of £214.80. Get yours here→ www.cineworld.co.uk

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