Rotten
Whiile pic doesn't exactly feel like a vanity project, its weak script might have kept it forever in development hell if debutant writer-helmer Baillie Walsh weren't the topliner's good buddy.
Leslie Felperin, Variety
Flashbacks of a Fool
2008 · 1h 50m · R
Drama
Directed by
Baillie Walsh
,
Tom Brewster
,
Mark Hopkins
,
Alex Oakley
,
Jacques Terblanche
,
Marci Trout
Overview
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970's Britain.
Director and cast
- Baillie Walsh Director
- Tom Brewster Director
- Mark Hopkins Director
- Alex Oakley Director
- Jacques Terblanche Director
- Marci Trout Director
- Daniel Craig as Joe Scott
- Harry Eden as Young Joe Scott
- Miriam Karlin as Mrs. Rogers
- Jodhi May as Evelyn Adams
- Helen McCrory as Peggy Tickell
- Olivia Williams as Grace Scott
- Felicity Jones as Young Ruth Davies
- Keeley Hawes as Jesse Scott
- Sid Mitchell as Chillo
- Alfie Allen as Kevin Hubble
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
38%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The bizarre secret isn't nearly interesting enough to justify the long buildup to it, and since it amounts to bad luck it doesn't really reveal anything about the actor, anyway.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten
Without Daniel Craig's 007-enhanced profile, it's unlikely that Flashbacks of a Fool would have appeared anywhere except the Netflix queues of his most rabid fans.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
Craig's shaken-but-not-stirred charisma makes the most of an underwritten part, but the movie nearly flat-lines when the actor's not onscreen, which is often.
Lance Goldenberg, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
While the dialogue is often hackneyed and full of rushed backstory (not enough flashbacks, evidently), the cinematography excels, particularly the chiaroscuro interiors.
Anna King, Time Out New York
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