Waiting For Dublin (2007/Cinema Libre DVD)
Picture: C+ Sound:
C+ Extras: D Feature: B+
The year is 1945, after a drunken New Year's Eve party,
Lt. Mike Clarke (Andrew Keegan) made a $10,000 bet with the mob that he could
shoot down 5 enemy aircrafts before the war ended. Unfortunately for him he gets lost with his
co-pilot, and low on fuel he lands in Ireland, just one short of his
quota. But he isn't the only one who is lost, just so happens another enemy
pilot is grounded in the same town as him. Along with the locals, whom rather just get
drunk at the local pub, instead of fighting, Mike makes friends with him and
hatches up a crazy plan to win the bet, all the meanwhile trying to score with
the local girls without getting hitched. That is the premise of Roger Tucker’s Waiting For Dublin (2007).
This is a comical film, a story of a lost pilot and his drunken misadventures. Set during the final days of World War II, the
characters comical combination of two enemy pilots landing in the same town,
setting aside their differences AND duties to kill each other. Instead drinking and making merry with each
other, Mike then drunk (again) hatches up a crazy plan, in which his new found
German friend agrees to let him shoot down his plane to get his last kill and
win the $10,000 bet. The villagers all
watches them on as the local entertainment, but after series of mishaps and
usually failure they end up back at the bar, the war is more likely to end
before they get it right.
Just as well, this is a comedy of errors.
It was fun to watch along with a cast of Irish characters (more or less
the peanut gallery) the crazy ideas of two enemy pilots, out of ammo, thinking
up of crazy ways to shoot down a plane. The
character Mike, who needs a co-pilot in his plane (someone who can hold the
plane steady) as he shoots down his adversary, would have a better chance of
winning the lottery; especially in a town of drunks. It is also funny to watch the romance and
antics of a local girl who tries to chase him down and get married. And later, a German assassin shows up... after
the war, and they must somehow convince him the war has end on his way there. It is that kind of movie.
The 1.85 X 1 picture and Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo are not
that great, but it is not like watching a sitcom either. There are no extras.
- Ricky Chiang
