If you're looking for a truly forgettable film to fall asleep to, then you'd be hard pushed to beat this slow, soporific piece of celluloid...
The plot plods painfully and predictably along at a pace more suited to a party political broadcast than what is laughably described as a thriller.
The acting wouldn't seem out of place on a TV shopping channel or an ultra-low budget kids TV show. Admittedly, the cast didn't exactly have a whole bunch to work with: the dialogue is nothing short of dismal and the characters are so two dimensional and clichéd that it renders any empathy towards the protagonists nigh on impossible.
Rupert Grint, who gives what is probably the best performance in the film, is about as convincing as a pound-shop wig and James Nesbitt must have either taken on the responsibility of supporting a whole troupe of licentious, crack smoking, compulsive gamblers or be so utterly desperate to escape being forever typecast as a "Cheeky Chappy" that he will LITERALLY accept any other role that he's offered... and if this isn't the case then I shudder to think how god awful the scripts he's turning down must be!
I gave it a generous 2/10
The plot plods painfully and predictably along at a pace more suited to a party political broadcast than what is laughably described as a thriller.
The acting wouldn't seem out of place on a TV shopping channel or an ultra-low budget kids TV show. Admittedly, the cast didn't exactly have a whole bunch to work with: the dialogue is nothing short of dismal and the characters are so two dimensional and clichéd that it renders any empathy towards the protagonists nigh on impossible.
Rupert Grint, who gives what is probably the best performance in the film, is about as convincing as a pound-shop wig and James Nesbitt must have either taken on the responsibility of supporting a whole troupe of licentious, crack smoking, compulsive gamblers or be so utterly desperate to escape being forever typecast as a "Cheeky Chappy" that he will LITERALLY accept any other role that he's offered... and if this isn't the case then I shudder to think how god awful the scripts he's turning down must be!
I gave it a generous 2/10