Grafting pieces of one movie onto another

This mess of a film makes the viewer feel as though they're watching bits and pieces of one movie grafted onto another.

The bulk of the film is a formulaic and not particularly well-made suspense/thriller with the cliched evil tycoon and his cronies bumping off all who stand in his way. The lead actor/actress (Vinnie Jones and Julie Cox) are as boring and uninspired as the main story. Typical movie of the week fodder, and not worth a second glance.

On the other hand, the filmmaker somehow managed to wrangle Derek Jacobi into this film, thanks to a tacked-on secondary subplot involving a lost text by Dickens. Jacobi is great as a mad, intelligent derelict and delivers some great recitation of Dickens (not to mention other sources).

Does any of this (or the Vanessa Redgrave cameo) elevate the movie of the week material any higher? Of course not, because it's a tacked on afterthought and completely out of place with the rest of the movie's content, quality, and tone. It's as though somebody cut a few scenes out of a potentially interesting but half-baked film and grafted them onto a made for Lifetime network movie.