Ha! You thought I was going to forget my Monday post but you were wrong! I almost did, but that's not the point.Alice (Maggie Grace) is on the run in London when she is hit by a cabbie and loses her memory. The cab driver, Whitey (Danny Dyer), is late for a very important date so he bundles Alice into the back. A local gangster, Harry Hart (Nathaniel Parker), has just gotten out of jail and the street crews are doing their best to get Harry the most memorable, most exciting present for his coming out party. Meanwhile, poor Alice just wants to remember who she is.
This is based on Alice in Wonderland but attempts to give the story a more modern twist. Mostly, it works if you don't mind being telegraphed every single major development. There are not a lot of new ways to present this so literally, after all. I did appreciate the attempts at gender bending some of the roles. Making the Mad Hatter a crazy madam named Hattie (Bronogh Gallagher) with a big rig full of tarted up prostitutes was an especially nice touch. If I have a complaint, it's that they really didn't delve far enough into the mythology. The film focused more on Alice's search for an identity than it did exploring how the underbelly of a society is a different world than the legal one above.
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