My Name Is Joe Movie Review
My Name Is Joe Review
"My Name Is Joe" Overview
Rating: R
1998
Cast and Crew
Director : Ken LoachProducer : Rebecca O'Brien
Screenwiter : Paul Laverty
Starring : Peter Mullan,Louise Goodall,David McKay,Anne-Marie Kennedy,David Hayman,Gary Lewis,Lorraine McIntosh
Okay, so your name is Joe. So what?
Joe turns out to be a recovering alcoholic, and in 28 Days fashion, winds his
way to recovery, stopping only for a tepid romance with a lady friend. Then My
Name is Joe turns gangsterish, before an abrupt and uninteresting ending --
which might have been redeemed if the film was remotely interesting anywhere
along the way.
In Glasgow-English so thick it has to be subtitled, Joe is so self-indulgent
and smug that you can't help but hate it.
|
Review by Christopher Null 
|
