‘Alcatraz’: ‘Johnny McKee’ review
Like an old-timer lag who’s finally managed to file his way through a set of heavy iron bars and make good his escape, Alcatraz is beginning to hit its stride.
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Like an old-timer lag who’s finally managed to file his way through a set of heavy iron bars and make good his escape, Alcatraz is beginning to hit its stride.
Amstell is a remarkably interesting comic, if only for his great desire to expose the absolute truth – not only to cut to the bone, but very much past the bone.
Alcatraz is improving, but still feels like the work of a talented JJ Abrams wannabe rather than the man himself.
Things are now beginning to kick off in an interesting way for Alcatraz, essentially because the characters are now beginning to have some personal investment in the over-reaching story.
Perhaps consciously striving to avoid Lost-style confusion, the script is still somewhat simplistic, which sometimes means that it ends up working against itself.
There are, no doubt, lots of little clues being sprinkled liberally in the background, which would be welcome, since the dialogue is still rather too simplistic in the foreground.
As fun and as enjoyable as this undoubtedly is, it remains to be seen if Alcatraz will hold you prisoner.
The real draw of this deliberately silly – and occasionally, surprisingly moving little programme – is to see a ‘new’ version of the Python boys do their stuff.
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