Francesca Rudkin: The Union and The Three Musketeers: Milady

The Union  

Mike, a down-to-earth construction worker, is thrust into the world of super spies and secret agents when his high school sweetheart, Roxanne, recruits him on a high-stakes US intelligence mission (Netflix).  

The Three Musketeers: Milady  

Constance Bonacieux is kidnapped before D'Artagnan's very eyes. In a frantic quest to save her, the young musketeer, aided by Athos, Porthos and Aramis, is forced to join forces with the mysterious Milady de Winter. 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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your Saturday Morning Thanks for your feedback, Jack. Don't you
think the dropping of Finlay Christie Enrico Yowani had something
to do with the Leo McDonald Scott Robertson breakdown suspiciously yours? Yeah,
that could be. That could be one of the factors too,
couldn't it.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm starting to feel like maybe I've just been sucked
I'm starting to feel like maybe I've just been a
bit naive this morning and thinking, oh, you know, it's
just good to see even on front footing this and
not coming up with the lame excuse and just saying, yeah,
we weren't getting along, we weren't clicking, we were clashing
a bit. What did they say that there had been
some robust conversations over the last week a few weeks,
and so we decided to pop in. Anyway, maybe maybe

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I have been sucked in. Like you say, I think
we need to hear from Leo mctonald at some point
if you want to flick us a note ninety two
ninety two is the text number. It's twenty two to ten,
which means it's time to catch up with our film reviewer,
Francesca Rudkin, Kyoda, good morning. Okay, two films to talk
to you this morning. The first one is streaming on
Netflix and immediately popped up on my algorithm. This is

(01:30):
the Union.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I am Mikey Brocks.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
And how often is it that you manage high course?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
We don't after twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Long years, two shots.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I didn't have an Ontario voter to bring in your hair.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I'm trying to whisk me away with you. Huh something.
Welcome to London, Miki Bros. What the hell? Where did
Jersey go?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, We've got a down to earth construction worker, Mark
Wahlberg thrust into the world of superspies and seek great agents.
This feels very likely, Francesca.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yes, so we seem to be having a bit of
a space of quite big name driven films being released
on screening streaming services. Of course, last week I spoke
about The Instigator that tried to do something a little
bit different as was a sort of a Boston centric
anti heist film. This week I'm going to talk about
The Union, which is a little bit more straightforward. It

(02:32):
is a spy action comedy stars Halle Berryer and Matt Wolberg,
and I was actually really surprised. They had very good chemistry.
They worked really well together in this film, which I
think is a good thing because the film itself and
the plot and everything is a little bit light. It's
not really, it's actually more of a reunion. The two
of them used to be high school sweethearts. Mike is

(02:56):
just kind of still living in the same neighborhood as
you say, construction worker, and Roxanne has gone on to
become a super spy and she recruits him on a
high stakes, intelligent mission. And we're very much relying on
that kind of fish out of warm water humor to
kind of you kick us off here. So good chemistry,

(03:17):
lots of fun, pretty predictable. It kind of hits all
those kind of beats you would expect in a bit
of an action comedy. Story isn't quite edgy enough to
make it stand out, But if you want some really
light escapism this weekend, then it will probably hit the
mark for you. It has gone number one on Netflix

(03:38):
and numerous different countries around the place. So very popular.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think emphasis on really light is that fair?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, totally. And you and I we talk about this
quite often.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, I know a place we need these.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Sometimes they're done really well. This one is done.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Okay, even that line from Mike Warburg, it's not every
day you run into your high school sweetheart twenty.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Five years later, here we go.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Every day your high school sweel looks like Alie Berry
as well.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Anyway, that is the Union streaming on Netflix. For something
completely different, tell us about The Three Musketeers Milady.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
So I spoke about these films when the French Film
Festival is playing much earlier in the year, and they've
both come back to play at cinemas, so there's there
are obviously adaptations of The Three Musketeers the novel. It's
been put into two films, so you might have gone
to see The Three Musketeers d'Artagnan. Well, Milady is the
second one, and that is just about to be released.

(04:42):
And these are actually really well done swashbuckling adventure films.
They've got amazing costumes, plenty of actions, some really good
fighting scenes, but there's also a touch of romance and
a touch of humor. It's almost old fashioned sort of
storytelling done really really well. And I didn't realize when

(05:04):
I saw the first one that it is a part
and so when it ended, I was like, oh, what
is another one? But the next year I was really
excited because Milady, which is about to come out this week,
is also it's just more of the same in this
particular one. Either Green plays Malady to Winter and she's
involved in a very complex pot to bring France into

(05:25):
a war, and they're trying to topple the king, and
our Musketeers are once again involved, and off we go
on a wonderful adventure. We're seeing on the big screen because,
as I say, they put a lot of a lot
of effort into the production design and the costumes and
everything of these films, so we're seeing on the big screen.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Nice. Okay, thanks Franchesca those films again. The Union is
on Netflix. It probably comes up as soon as you
open Netflix, given it's number one in New Zealand at
the moment, and The Three Musketeers Milady is showing in cinemas.

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