Second Nature

 Second Nature 2003

• Director: Ben Bolt
• Seen by this director: Downton Abbey, a few episodes and some episodes in other series.
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Alec Baldwin, Louise Lombard, Philip Jackson, Powers Booth, Pip Torrens
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Alec Baldwin – A Star is Born, BlacKkKlansman, The Aviator, Glengarry Glen Ross, Miami Blues, Great Balls of Fire, Working Girl, Married to the Mob, Beetlejuice
• Louise Lombard – SGU Stargate Universe, Hidalgo
• Philip Jackson – My Week with Marilyn, Hustle, Little Britain, Little Voice, Brassed Off, Hamish Macbeth
• Pip Torrens – Star Wars the Force Awakens, The Hollow Crown, Hustle, My Week with Marilyn, Doctor Who, Shackleton, Longitude, Tomorrow Never Dies, Hamish Macbeth, The Remains of the Day, Jeeves & Wooster, A Handful of Dust
• Why? Gift from my friend HM
• Seen: 26 September 2021.      

       Paul Kane (Baldwin) loses his wife and two small daughters in a small plane crash. He survives and recovers but has gaps in his memory. Harriet Fellowes (Lombard) is his trauma psychiatrist. He’s instructed by a mysterious phone caller not to tell her certain things. It seems he’s an assassin. CIA?

       I’m not a great fan of spy stories but this might be a little different, and Alec Baldwin can be good.

       It is different and for a while it’s entertaining, but it gets itself into an unlikely tangle and resorts to a lame love story and a boring (as always) fist fight. 

2 * of 5