Ashes 2012 123movies

Watch: Ashes 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – Frank (Ray Winstone) is confined to a residential home, stricken with Alzheimer’s – past, present and future steadily disintegrating. Then one day, James (Jim Sturgess) appears, wanting to re-connect with a father who no longer knows him. James springs Frank from the home and the pair go on the run. As their haphazard journey unfolds – funny, violent and tragic by turns – the present merges with imperfect memories of the past and fact with fiction and we begin to realize that nothing is quite what it seems. ASHES itself defies neat categorization; part road movie, part psychological thriller; part contemporary film noir, but all beautifully shot and with a grimly satisfying twist..
Plot: One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer’s, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank is put under and decides to break him out in the hope of returning him to his family. As the two travel across the country, beginning to bond along the way, it soon transpires that both Frank and Jamie are at odds with their past.
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Unappetising would-be thriller
ASHES is an unusual little thriller, shot in the Isle of Man, which I thought came across as bad taste a bit. It stars a headlining Ray Winstone as an Alzheimer’s sufferer who’s broken out of a nursing home by his son Jim Sturgess. The two then go on a road movie of sorts while events of the past continue to influence the present.

This is a fairly difficult film to enjoy, as it has a slow pace and the characters are resolutely unlikeable from beginning to end. And that’s from somebody who likes Winstone as an actor, but I wasn’t sure about his character here; I ended up laughing at a couple of his violent outbursts rather than being moved by them.

The thriller aspects of the storyline are rather murky and the dodgy camera-work in the flashbacks also spoils things a bit. The ending I found unsatisfactory too. Sturgess seems one dimensional throughout and it’s left to supporting actors like Luke Evans, Jodie Whittaker, and Lesley Manville to hold the fort.

The man of the past
The biggest problem with Ashes is the casting of Ray Winstone. He plays Frank an advanced Alzheimer’s sufferer stuck in a nursing home. He was once a hard man, a type of person Winstone has been playing since the late 1970s.

One day his son James (Jim Sturgess) comes to visit him in the nursing home and then for some inexplicable reason takes him away. It has to be more than the nursing home being not that good.

As Jim drives away with Frank, an haphazard road journey shifts the film into a different direction.

Jim has been forced into his actions and he is not Frank’s son. JB (Luke Evans) is actually Frank’s son and seems to behind all this. Somewhere among Frank’s erratic behaviour and violent outbursts, he remembers the person he once was, a nasty man, a wife beater something that affected JB so much that he has taken a drastic step.

Ashes is a flat inert and incomprehensible film. It becomes a dark thriller in its second half, the slow reveal as Frank during more lucid moments remembers what he did all those years ago comes as no surprise because of the casting. I even guessed that James was not his son. It does beg the question who put Frank in the nursing home and whose details they had for his next of kin?

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Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director Mat Whitecross
Writer Paul Viragh, Mat Whitecross
Actors Luke Evans, Lesley Manville, Jim Sturgess
Country United Kingdom
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