My Review - The Trick
A BBC Production
My Rating 7/10
This new movie from The BBC is promoted as a thriller , sorry it's not a thriller at all .
Actually there's nothing thrilling at all about this movie the word Id use to describe it is chilling.
It's a true account of events in 2009 when Professor Phil Jones a renown Climatologist played by Jason Watkins
found himself at the center of "an international media storm, and the victim of cyberterrorism"
Jason Watkins is so convincing as the scientist who is suffering anxiety and not prepared to handle the media onslaught as he needs to be to defend his reputation.
"With time running out against an unseen enemy, The Trick looks at the potentially devastating consequences to humanity from climate change denial; how a media storm undermined public confidence in the science and how the concept of 'truth' took a back seat -- causing us to lose a decade of action,"
The film also features Victoria Hamilton, George MacKay, Jerome Flynn, Adrian Edmondson, Aneirin Hughes, Pooky Quesnel, Richard Elfyn and Rhashan Stone.
Jerome Flynn stars as Neil Wallis, a former News of the World executive and George MacKay as Sam Bowen, they have the daunting task of defending the reputation of Professor Jones and The University of East Anglia. "The film also charts the unjustified persecution of Phil Jones, his wife Ruth's support of her husband and the fight for the ultimate exoneration of himself and the science."
The Trick is written by Owen Sheers and directed by Pip Broughton. Ben Irving serves as executive producer, with Adrian Bate as producer.
This film is well acted well directed with no tricks it just tells a story and an important story it's a little dull in places but so worth a look.
