I suppose if your film is being financed by the Welsh Film Board the least you are expected to do is film in Wales. Which is all well and good except that this was supposed to be Bexhill on Sea in Sussex and you'd be hard pushed to find moors and sandy beaches anywhere near there. This misplacing hits you between the eyes immediately if you know the area.
Then we have the rather silly "plot" which verges on the Sexton Blake/Boy's Own lunacy at times. Izzard is handcuffed and in a second floor room at one point but manages to overcome his guard and in the next shot we see him escaping by leaping over those stone walls so redolent of Welsh farming and never found in Sussex countryside. Just how did he get from the top floor to the ground without going down the stairs? Don't ask. And he finds a very convenient telephone box in the middle of the moors... The girls in the final scene holding up flares to attract the German plane - conveniently and rather stupidly in two rows close enough to be decapitated by the landing aircraft. Their teacher reminded me of Helga from 'Allo 'Allo, all shouty and over eager.
Tosh. Utter tosh. Judi Dench must have been short of a few bob to get involved with this farrago.
Then we have the rather silly "plot" which verges on the Sexton Blake/Boy's Own lunacy at times. Izzard is handcuffed and in a second floor room at one point but manages to overcome his guard and in the next shot we see him escaping by leaping over those stone walls so redolent of Welsh farming and never found in Sussex countryside. Just how did he get from the top floor to the ground without going down the stairs? Don't ask. And he finds a very convenient telephone box in the middle of the moors... The girls in the final scene holding up flares to attract the German plane - conveniently and rather stupidly in two rows close enough to be decapitated by the landing aircraft. Their teacher reminded me of Helga from 'Allo 'Allo, all shouty and over eager.
Tosh. Utter tosh. Judi Dench must have been short of a few bob to get involved with this farrago.
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