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The Beach

Exotic drama based on the bestseller by Alex Garland, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton and Virginie Ledoyen. An American backpacker in Thailand discovers an idyllic beach community on a secret island.

Movie rating: 3 star rating.  - good.
* - Watchable
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Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Robert Carlyle, Guillaume Canet
Director: Danny Boyle
Year: 2000
Running time: 118 mins
Certificate: 15
 
 
Showing times
Friday 05 December 19:00 Sky Movies HD2
 
The Beach American tourist Leonardo DiCaprio, halfway through the holiday from Hell in downtown Bangkok, inherits a map from crazed Robert Carlyle and finds an island paradise somewhere off the Thai coast. For some reason best known to himself and the plot, Leo makes a copy of the chart and gives it to two passing acquaintances. Taking a pair of French backpackers for company, he swims a mile from one island to another, jumps off a sky-high rock into a lagoon and thence to a happy hippie commune ruled over by Queen Tilda Swinton. She takes a shine to the newcomer, who has unfortunately fallen for the French girl backpacker (Virginie Ledoyen). Given the copy of the map, the flames of jealousy, the rifle-wielding marijuana farmers on the island and the sharks patrolling its shores, all this takes rather a long time to end in tears. Leophiles will love him with his shirt off, but, despite its fusion of familiar audience-pleasing elements, there's too little of moment going on for this film to grip our attention until it's more than half-way through.

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Gavin Mckeeman
This user has rated this film 4 stars - very good.
* - Watchable
** - Average
*** - Good
**** - Very Good
***** - Unmissable
 
Yet another underrated movie. This movie is highly enjoyable with a original storyline and a perfect backdrop for events to unfold. Superb escapism - so watch and make up your own mind.
 
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