There is no bad acting in A running Jump so for that maybe it deserves a better rating, but I'm basing my ratings mostly on the story and the fact that if I was entertained or not, and for that the plot is just too weak to be interesting. To me it just feels like an unfinished long play movie. 35 minutes is just not enough to bring a story like this one. It all looks very rushed and compressed. And it's not the sometimes excellent acting that makes this movie better than it actually is. Eddie Marsan is a good actor and I was surprised he played in a short movie like this one.
Plot summary
Incompetent car salesman Perry is desperate to get the money to release the car he hopes to sell to young Gary from the garage but his wife, fitness instructor Debbie, is fed up with constantly bank-rolling him and he eventually has to sell Gary an inferior model to stump up the cash to pay the garage man. Just how inferior it is Gary discovers when the engine starts smoking and the car breaks down on the way home.
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English 2.0
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Too short, felt unfinished.
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A fun half hour
Seen as part of a programme of four shorts for the London 2012 Festival, Mike Leigh's short film follows a hectic day in the life of used car salesman Eddie Marsan and his family.
It's entertaining, drawing its humour from larger than life characters, moves at a break-neck pace and cleverly incorporates the sport theme by showing how it's involved in the everyday lives of ordinary people - this is done so subtly that you don't even realise it at the time.
In the end though, the humour is all there is, the characters are more caricatures who it's difficult to get care too much about, and there's no emotional pay-off to all the frenetic running around.