By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Alexander Nathan Etel | Daisy Donovan | James Nesbitt | Lewis Own McGibbon
Country: united_kingdom, united_states
Year: 2005
Running time: 98
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366777/combined
Chris says: “No junkies or zombies in Danny Boyle’s first family film, which asks, ‘What would happen if two young boys found a duffel bag stacked with cash that seemingly just fell from out of the sky?’ MILLIONS sort of re-imagines SHALLOW GRAVE as a gentle kids film where the hero faces an age-old moral crisis: what to do with money that doesn’t belong to him. It’s an amusing premise fleshed out with melodrama (the boys’ mother is recently deceased), religious allusions, and a little satire (the story is set at the time of Pound-to-Euro conversion). On the whole, it’s cute but slight; unfortunately, it can’t resist adding an unnecessary villian that tampers with the tone. It ultimately has little of the weight of TRAINSPOTTING or even 28 DAYS LATER, but it’s encouraging to see Boyle attempting something different. 3 cats”