Here's a curiosity. This one should have no charm or interest for anybody, but it draws you in, you find yourself keeping on watching it. Maybe that's one of the criteria of good cinema? That something keeps you interested, even though on paper the story is as ordinary as they come (like The Million Dollar Baby. If anyone told you "it's about an old boxing trainer who trains a girl boxer" would you care at all? But it's a masterpiece)
Anyway, this movie has two familiar faces, although the names may not be that familiar. Conleth Hill, the big bald guy from Game of Thrones, is a famous author, who has written only one book and become a legend with it, and is now going on talk shows, as a snobbish modern art critic. We see that he's also a small time shoplifter. He apparently does it for the excitement only, almost wanting to be caught. But one day he is actually caught, by a small, annoying and pesky security guard, played by Stephen Graham (Tommy from Snatch, also the psychopathic skinhead gang leader from This Is England) And things get out of control real fast.
It's not a movie that really deserves 8 / 10, but the effort does deserve it. It's a small wonder how talented people can get so much out of so little.
Anyway, this movie has two familiar faces, although the names may not be that familiar. Conleth Hill, the big bald guy from Game of Thrones, is a famous author, who has written only one book and become a legend with it, and is now going on talk shows, as a snobbish modern art critic. We see that he's also a small time shoplifter. He apparently does it for the excitement only, almost wanting to be caught. But one day he is actually caught, by a small, annoying and pesky security guard, played by Stephen Graham (Tommy from Snatch, also the psychopathic skinhead gang leader from This Is England) And things get out of control real fast.
It's not a movie that really deserves 8 / 10, but the effort does deserve it. It's a small wonder how talented people can get so much out of so little.