A good idea let down by heavy-handed production.
Quite a bit of the dialogue was unintelligible because of the level of music/background sound, and this didn't help this reviewer. Nor did the Welsh accents, pretty impenetrable at times. Towards the end I lost the will to live trying to follow the dialogue.
This movie didn't know whether to be a farce or a black comedy - and they require different approaches. Some of the incidents were laid on so thick that they only merited a groan, some were so unbelievable even for this sort of plot that they made the story just not worth following.
The acting was in the main good - although the American just came over as a clone of the "Back to the future" mad scientist. The little boy was very good.
I did watch it all the way through but God knows why: I can't remember laughing once.
Quite a bit of the dialogue was unintelligible because of the level of music/background sound, and this didn't help this reviewer. Nor did the Welsh accents, pretty impenetrable at times. Towards the end I lost the will to live trying to follow the dialogue.
This movie didn't know whether to be a farce or a black comedy - and they require different approaches. Some of the incidents were laid on so thick that they only merited a groan, some were so unbelievable even for this sort of plot that they made the story just not worth following.
The acting was in the main good - although the American just came over as a clone of the "Back to the future" mad scientist. The little boy was very good.
I did watch it all the way through but God knows why: I can't remember laughing once.