What it made up for in performance it lacked elsewhere. The film was entirely predictable. As soon as you saw flipper it was obvious that he was going to play the part of the idolising idiot that would mess up, either through stupidity or from being scorned.
The most disappointing part of the film was the poorly explained and irrational attitude of the detective ... at no point was there even an attempt to explore his deficiency in the forgiveness department ... in fact by the end of the film you're left with the feeling that he was simply jealous of Dryden and the way that Dryden's life had turned around, while he himself had become the archetypal loser - a friendless loner facing retirement without a family or partner and still living with his mum.
Furthermore, the essence of 'the policy' was ... something that the detective ultimately had no problem with ... from ruining the wedding and thus the bride and grooms lifelong memories of what should have been a special day to the rape of an innocent.
You could almost call it a Tragedy except the focus of attention wasn't on the detective.
Instead it was a horribly predictable mess that by the end felt as if it was the result of cutting down a TV series into a film.
Looks like a spanner, acts like a spanner ... it's spanner boy
reply
share