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By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Malice in Wonderland is a modern gangland reworking of Alice in Wonderland transplanted to modern day North East via London. Well it stars cockney geezer Danny Dyer as black cab driver, Whitey also known as White Rabbit.Maggie Grace is Alice Dodgson, an American law student living in London who ends up in a daze after being hit by Whitey's cab and ends up in a surreal underground world of fairgrounds, nightclubs, gangsters. There are fleeting appearances from a night time DJ, Felix Chester. Homophobic bouncers Dom and Dean Tweedle as well as other Wonderland characters with a twist who aid or hinder Alice.The film is an interesting misfire. It never quiet gels or is coherent enough. I think the film was also hampered by its low budget. It still has a surreal and inventive element to it.

I stumbled upon this movie by sheer randomness. Never heard about it before, and picked it in lack of better things to watch. I was expecting something in the likes of "Alice in Wonderland", but found this movie to be just a tad too weird for my liking.The characters in the movie was very unique and quirky. And the actors and actresses portraying them actually did a good job with their roles, and the acting and dialogue came across the screen quite nicely. Danny Dyer, in the role of Whitey, was actually the most memorable and outstanding character in my opinion.There were a lot of really weird scenes and places throughout the movie, and I guess it is an acquired taste with a movie like this. Truth be told, then this movie wasn't particular in my liking. "Malice In Wonderland" also had some really interesting music in it.The movie is not bad, and it was actually nicely put together, from the imagery, the directing and the acting. And I am sure a movie like this will have a particular audience out there somewhere.

Malice in Wonderland kind of intrigued me because the idea and the thought of making a cockney-gangster version of the Alice in Wonderland story was a clever approach as I haven't heard of a version like it so it's unique. It could have went either way, it could have been something original yet different or it could have been a laughable idea that isn't interesting enough. Malice in Wonderland is pretty much the first. The story is clever yet average, it's clever the way they twisted the known tale of Alice but it didn't grip you in the first fifteen minutes, it took me about twenty minutes to actually get into the movie and no movie should take that long to get your attention. Even though it started quite slow, as time went on, it picked up the pace and started to get better. The acting is average, Danny Dyer plays Whitey (which is, as you've probably guessed, the equivalent to the White Rabbit) and yet again Danny Dyer is basically playing himself, as his character is the same as the other characters he's ever played in movies. However, Malice in Wonderland is the best he's ever been. The talent that shines throughout is the gorgeous Maggie Grace who plays the troubled twenty-year-old Alice. The characters were created cleverly to twist the characters in the story and added a hint of personality from the real world. The direction is done well and the cinematography is okay and it's clever the way they did it. I also loved how they borrowed some of the lines from the old movie and added them for the characters and I liked how it stuck to the original Alice in Wonderland plot and twisted it.Overall, I was on and off about it before watching but after watching, I ended up liking it. It's an above-average movie and I enjoyed it. It's such a brilliant translation and you would like this movie if you liked Alice in Wonderland.Read more reviews at: www.dudedazzmoviereviews.wordpress.com

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning A young woman named Alice (Maggie Grace) runs in front of a cab driven by Whitey (Danny Dyer) who ends up being her unwitting chauffeur through-out a series of increasingly wild and outlandish events that lead to explain why she's being hunted by a load of people for...some reason or other. Malice in Wonderland has the dubious honour of being the one film I've seen in ages where if a plot existed, I failed to make it out. Obviously intended as a post modernist take on the well known 'Alice' in Wonderland fairy tale (given even more credence given Tim Burton's recent big screen adaptation of the story) all it really manages to achieve is a complete and utter feeling of 'what the hell is going on?' It's a messy bad acid trip of a film, which I've just found out is set in the North East of England but could just have easily have been London for all I could make out (even more confusing given the inclusion of cockney actors Matt King and lead star Dyer.) If even early on, it's got you lost and confused it doesn't get any easier as it goes on and Simon Fellows never lets up on the increasing eccentricity and nonsense.Dyer remains one of the more curious actors of this generation, so it's always interesting to see where his career goes, but more far off projects like this might get him a more off kilter fan base. *