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Global Heresy

Threat advisory: Guarded - General risk of entertaining activities

Movie propaganda

It's time to rock the establishment.

Lord and Lady Foxley (Peter O'Toole and Joan Plowright) are quintessential British aristocrats that have fallen on hard times. Lacking the funds to maintain their lifestyle, the reluctantly agree to rent their castle. What these royal Brits don't realise is that they're in for the shock of their lives. Their new house guests are America's hottest new rock band Global Heresy.

Also starring Alicia Silverstone as Nat, Jaimz Woolvett as Leo, Keram Malicki-Sánchez as Flit, Christopher Bolton as Carl, Lochlyn Munro as Dave, Martin Clunes as James Chancellor, Amy Phillips as Georgia and Alex Karzis as Ben. Written by Mark Mills, directed by Sidney J. Furie.

Cinematic intelligence sources

Intelligence analyst

Secret Agent Acid Thunder

Theatrical report

At first I was a bit confused. I also thought it was really slow going. There were two completely different things going on; the first being Lord and Lady Foxley getting rid of the hired help - that was confusing because I thought they were going away and the help was being left behind - and the second being Nat and her band arriving for a press conference. After that things became clearer, but not much.

From what I could gather, Global Heresy were a group who lost a member, and that's where Alicia Silverstone comes in, being the new band member. As for Lord and Lady Muck: they are broke, but you don't truly understand that until the very end of the movie - bloody Pommies! - so they masquerade as butler and maid, the very same people they got rid of. And so on. There were times when I was really into it.

Even though I fell asleep half way through (it was late and I had to go to bed) I could watch this one over again.

Media intelligence (DVD)

Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages: English
Picture: Widescreen 16:9 enhanced

Security censorship classification

M (Low level coarse language, drug use, sexual references)

Surveillance time

106 minutes (1:46 hours)

Not for public release in Australia before date

DVD rental: 28 August 2002
VHS rental: 28 August 2002