Sadly awful


It's not often that I find a film bad enough that I feel the need to talk about how bad it is, but this is one of them. I have been trying to find a redeeming feature, one thing that is not abysmal, but all I can come up with is that some of the hair styles are quite nice.

Other commenters have said that the 'English' characters are played by English actors. Maybe that's true. But, if so then they must have left the UK some years ago. I'd estimate around the time that shows like "The Professionals" and "The Sweeny" were staples of prime time television as those are where the accents seem to have come from, I half expected the staff to call the coffee bar manager "Guv'". That or they were instructed by the director to adopt unrealistic stereotyped accents. I was especially suprised by the accent used by Callum Blue both as I know he is actualy from England and as he used a reasonably accurate accent as Mason in "Dead Like Me".

A storyline is kind of vaguely there but it never really achieves any sort of narrative flow or basic coherancy. When it does show up it tends towarss te soporific.

Lighting varies from acceptable to why-bother.

I note that the director has been nominated for an Emmy 6 times, for outstanding informational series, as an Executive Producer. Perhaps he'd be better sticking to that?

Avoid if at all possible. If you can't avoid going to see it take along a torch and a book, you'll need them.

Stephen

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The writer of this post is a wise man, heed his warning...
*sob* if only I'd read this before I saw that abysmal tripe.
I paid $2 Australian to rent this movie for 7 days. I feel I was both ripped off in the fact I had to pay that much money for this much quality as well as insulted I'm expected to keep this in my house for a week.

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In all honesty i havent yet seen this movie,but on the subject of brit accents in films,i have seen alot of brits in yank films over the years and nearly all of the brits in them seem to have been directed to 'improve' on their own natural accents to sound more 'british' than they do in real life-eg they are directed to sound how yanks think a brit should sound,rather than how they realy do!
You watch a film with say bruce willis in then compare to random interviews with him,no difference-he sounds the same,but you watch a film with,say,sean bean and then compare his way of speaking in a film he's portraying a brit in to how he speaks in real life,you can see a mile away that the drivel he's forced to utter in films is nothing like his natural accent or natural way of expressing himself,so if theres any unrealistic brit accents,blame the directors for forcing their opinions on the actors as to how they thinks brits should speak,not the actors themselves as they are just following orders...
its a general misconception by yanks that brits all sound like cast of films like such as mary poppins,and regardless how many yanks visit the uk,that misconception doesnt seem to have faded over the yrs so thats how they tend to portray us when we are to speak 'proper' english on tv and in films lol

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I have to agree. unfortunately this was one terrible movie. I guess it was supposed to be a comedy? but I maybe chuckled once during the whole movie. It was just very slow and seemed to be going nowhere...one of those movies where a half hour into it you feel like your whole afternoon has gone by. i wish i hadn't wasted the time seeing it.

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I agree, what a complete load of crap.

The main person who's accent was pathetic has to be Mena Suvari! Stick to the American films, miss.

No plot

No story

No likeable people

I was bored stiff

I can't believe I wasted an hour and a half of my life on this vomit to be truthful

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i think they wrongly labelled this as a comedy. I went into this film with no preconceived ideas and just enjoyed it as a slice of life, window into peoples worlds, drama.

And I completely enjoyed it.

But I could understand how people comming to it, expecting a thigh slapping comedy would be a bit miffed.

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"Each to their own"
I didn't mind it.

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I really can't decide which is worse - the acting, the script or the accents.

I hate all the "worst film ever" threads on IMDB message boards but I'm struggling to think of a worse film - and I've seen Timeline!

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I liked the movie! I thought it was very funny. Academy award winning? No! But funny. It was kooky and over-the-top. I am not familiar with any of the actors other than kathryn Heigel, Mena Suvari, and Breckin. So, honestly, of the others, I didn't know who really is British and who is not. The accents didn't really bother me much, but I'm not an "expert" on British accents. I do know, however, than many people can be from the same country and have many different accents. Think of the U.S. We have an entire plethora of accents here.

Overall, I liked this movie. It was a pleasant surprise that arrived from netflix. (I don't even remember why I put it in my queue.)



"The real crime, I think, was the beard."

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I appreciate your attempt at .. well, whatever it was you were doing. But my opinion, and those that I shared my DVD with, found the movie quite funny. A gem in fact. It's one of those movies where you go: how come I never heard of it before. And then you HAVE to watch over and over again. I watched it every night for a week - yes, seriously - after I got it.

Now it's borrowed out to inlaws and I'm going through withdrawals just thinking about it.

As far as accents go: who cares. WHEN I see an interview done by any of the UK actors/resses on the movie about how disappointed they were by the slaughtering of their country's 'accents' - then I'll give it a second thought.
No. I won't. LOL I thought it was funny. Period.

Daz - Steve - hasn't left the UK a 'long time ago'. He may live in the LA area now for work in the US, but he still returns 'home' quite frequently, as well as many mates that he keeps in touch with. If anything, he would be the first to say it: his accent is a blend of many areas. He works on that and can pull up the dialect needed when needed.



Movie was AWESOME. And I don't need big, mis-spelled words to help me say it.

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I agree it was pretty dreadful. The accents and acting didn't bother me so much as the dreadful weak script. This movie really went nowhere as was about as interesting as evesdropping on the conversations of a back seat full of 15 year olds on a bus.



'Lady Sarah, whose emotions are as frozen as Kidman's forehead'...Australia Review, Times Online

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I agree, this movie is bad, I just rented it from Netflix because I am a fan of Mike Vogel, but the story was awful and the characters were not interesting.
I don;t think the actors did a bad job,, I just think it was not a very good job on the part of the writer.

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