DVD
St. Vincent
Starring Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthey, Naomi Watts
SOMETIMES a film can fail because it is reaching for greatness. St. Vincent works because it doesn’t.
This is a movie that is happy in its own skin as a slightly quirky, feel-good tale that rarely surprises but always delights.
As has been the base for most of his career, this film belongs to Bill Murray, with everyone else encouraged to come along for the ride.
Murray plays Vincent, an alcoholic gambler who owes money to nasty people and seems perpetually on the edge of losing the few things that are important to him.
He ends up babysitting the boy next door, who is unavoidably neglected by his struggling single mum.
If the tale of the two becoming the oddest odd couple since the Odd Couple seems familiar, that’s because it’s a very well worth path that this film meanders down.
Yes, the two become besties and Vincent turns out to be a diamond in the rough.
The journey to his canonisation, however, is a such an enjoyable one that the viewer doesn’t mind the rather predictable plot twists.
Bill Murray is Bill Murray, but in particularly good form, Melissa McCarthey has to be seen to be believed for those who wanted to kick-in the screen during The Heat and Naomi Watts has a ball playing the Russian hooker with – you guessed it – a heart of gold. Tune down the cynicism for a couple of hours and sanctify yourself in the Holy Order of Murray. You’ll be a better person for it.
– Danny Buttler
Latest
Collision on Station Street
A car has collided with a man on a bicycle on Station Street, Pakenham in the afternoon of Friday 3 May.
Emergency services were on...
