Movie #119 "Incendiary" was all on the shoulders of Michelle Williams who never fails to amaze me. This is definitely a movie about the close bond between son and "mum" and she and the film get that across so well. It also is about how your life can change in one moment (the explosion at the soccer stadium, in this film) --- I was impressed with how layered the characters are in the film, but the pace would start and stop and not enough info was given to the audience along the way to make me give it the 4 stars. I DID like it and appreciate the conflict, just could give more info and be less manipulative (some of the happenstances were unbelievable to me) . At rottentomatoes the big complaint is that there was nothing new here, but I thought the personalized story dealing with terrorist attacks and fear was a new AND important subject matter for today's films and I welcomed that here.
Average rating: 2.993
I gave it 3 stars
Incendiary
(2008) R
Director Sharon Maguire's powerful drama stars Michelle Williams as an adulterous young housewife struggling to come to terms with the deaths of her husband and infant son after they're killed in a terrorist bombing at a London soccer game. Crippled by grief, the widow seeks comfort through affairs with two men (Ewan McGregor and Matthew Macfadyen), inadvertently putting herself in the midst of a dangerous love triangle.
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