Moments of quality

Patchy but had its moments of quality without a doubt. Very good, released and quite brave performance from the lead John Simms who was well cast in this role of a somewhat unlikely kind of romantic hero managing in the end to overcome his sexual worries. The scene he has with Koop towards the latter part of the film is especially good as they stare, drug-addled and fascinated looking down at a table. The film did have its cringe-worthy moments (perhaps the Alternative National Anthem being one) but it's saved by other moments of clever insight into Human interaction such as the scene where Jip has to talk to a guy who he admits isn't actually an unpleasant person but he just doesn't like him and the dialogue, direction and performances perfectly convey the thoughts that have run through everyone's head at some stage in life when we are desperate to extricate ourselves from a strained conversation which we wish we hadn't had to enter into in the first place. Justin Kerrigan pops up again (as is his way) in the role of Ziggy Marlon and gives one of the best cameo performances in the whole film.