Better on details than when it's trying to uplift us with sport/pop montages, this film of London's Olympic summer crams it all in The official film of the 2012 London Olympics is a mixed bag, inevitably compromised by the task of having to condense two weeks of extraordinary activity into under two hours. If Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia was so 1936, First is very 2012, reducing specific events to filler within extended montages that seek to describe – usually in slow-motion, to the accompa...
Better on details than when it's trying to uplift us with sport/pop montages, this film of London's Olympic summer crams it all in The official film of the 2012 London Olympics is a mixed bag, inevitably compromised by the task of having to condense two weeks of extraordinary activity into under two hours. If Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia was so 1936, First is very 2012, reducing specific events to filler within extended montages that seek to describe – usually in slow-motion, to the accompa...
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