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3 Apr 30th, 2003 

28 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

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Easy to follow and light - hearted

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Slightly camp at times

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For anyone who has read any of my other film reviews this one will be more of an advert than a proper review because of the circumstances surrounding my viewing of the film.

Minnie Driver is one of the main stars in this British crime-comedy all about two ladies who try to blackmail a gang of crooks with strange and highly amusing consequences.

Driver plays an English nurse who lives with her best-friend and unemployed - blonde bimbo - actress who happens to be American, well if it's not race it's nationality these days, who is played by Mary McCormack.

Anyway. They get the number of a bloke they meet and one night they think they hear a bank robbery going on. They report it to the police who in true English fashion ignore the report. Anyway, the robbery did happen and the two hapless heroines piece together the pieces.

Using a mobile number they were given they set up a deal worth 300,000 pounds and then wait. Well the deal goes awry with an innocent homeless guy being shot and our girls witnessing it. From there we are introduced fully to the gang side of the story with the head honcho Kerrigan and the gang man in charge of solving the problem, Mason.

Thats the basics of the story and if you imagine a Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels type progression to the story then you'll have a good general idea of what the film is about. Only thing about this film is that there is far less bruatlity than Lock Stock and other gangster flicks but, there are still big guns being fired.

The supporting cast contained a few recognisable faces from British televison films but no-one who i could put a name to. All in all the film was a good watch and although it was very short at just 87 minutes i did find myself drawn to the characters and intrested in seeing where the story was going. Worth watching if you have nothing better to do.

By the way, check out other peoples opinions on this film for better details.

Thanks for reading, Craig

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Leigh1 17.05.2003 00:16

I love this film - a chick flick with guns! Leigh :)

SeasonTicketless 04.05.2003 11:08

I've never seen this, but it's one that I'll look out for now.

royray 30.04.2003 17:07

I like Minnie Driver,so I'll give this a go,good op,take care,pat.

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