When I saw this advertised as coming free with The Mail On Sunday paper, I rushed out to get the paper thinking it must be a half decent movie with such a great cast list. How wrong could I be.....there is a reason why this DVD was free and it's not a good one! Vinnie Jones stars as a journalist stuck covering the Greyhound races and unable to break out of his rut. He has dreams of being a serious investigative reporter but is sick of never being given a chance. Then a series of murders piques his interest and he sees a chance to seize the moment and finally make his name. All the murders are linked to a recently recovered unpublished Charles Dickens ...  Read the complete review

This 2008 film never really made it to the big screen or even to general DVD release with any degree of success. Instead, it was heralded by The Mail on Sunday, which bought it and then mass distributed it, giving it out for free with the newspaper one Sunday. I'm surprised that it only made it into my lap in this method, because it's actually quite enjoyable in many ways. There is a convoluted plot involving a previously undiscovered Charles Dickens novel, , with journalist Mike Sullivan (Vinnie Jones) doggedly purusing the manuscript, at the same time as investigating a number of similar murders happening on the Thames' river banks, in the heart of ...  Read the complete review