One of the many Lock, Stock.. type films to come out of the British film industry after Guy Ritchie ‘took the world by storm’ (as they say), this isn’t as bad as I’d feared (feared, because the movie, despite not being my type, stars Nicola Stapleton, who is, and I’d hate to find myself hating any Nicola Stapleton movie).

One weird thing this movie did was make me question my criticism of Don Cheadle’s accent in Ocean’s Eleven – there’s a guy in this movie with nearly the exact same accent, and I’m sure it’s not put on.

Mark Letheren has the most interesting part, playing basically a movie-length, steadily increasing, never-ending acid trip, after he inadvertently places his palm on the worktop in the house of a guy who makes extra-strength LSD. This leads to some great lines (“You’re so far gone, you don’t know your way back. You’re lost forever, spaceman.” and exchanges (“You’re white with pink wings. Beautiful!” “You’re off your tits!”)

Not a bad waste of time. The DVD has interesting extras – the director used to shoot warzone footage for news channels, and there’s some of his work included, plus a 20 minute making of, narrated by and very much supervised by the director, unlike these promo things that are often named “making of” featurettes, so it almost makes up for a commentary and stuff.

Nicola Stapleton, btw, isn’t even on the DVD cover so I didn’t expect much of her, but she rips apart a number of scenes in her inimitable mouthy style. She really needs to be noticed more.

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