So much potential, but just so bad! (Three and Out (DVD))

Member Name: wastingtime

Product:	Three and Out (DVD)
Date:	08/10/08 (136 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Gemma Arteton bedroom scene

Disadvantages: Everything else

Oh this film was so dissapointing, I really like going to see good British comedies, and their have been classics like Brassed off, Full Monty and Blackball, but this just completely let British comedy down.

The films starts with Paul Callow (MacKenzie Crook - who you will remember from Pirates of The Carribean, the one with the missing eye) as a London train driver, he is harmlessly driving his train one day when someone ends up on the train tracks in front of him and he runs them over. This happens again after a small period of time at which point two of his work mates tell him that if you kill three people in a month you get a massive compensation payout and your sent on your way, as the mind just can't recover.

Paul Callow returns to his crappy London house and you get the feeling that this is a man that isn't exactly all the fun of the fair, he lives in a flat where one of his neighbours has regular parties which he never attends - and he aspires to be a writer. His flat is surrounded by books and his base is his typewriter. His dream as it becomes clear is to move to a little remote house in the middle of nowhere to be alone with his books, but he just can't afford it!

That is why this idea of the massive compensation payout begins to play on his mind, if he takes it he could quit being a train driver and fulfill his ambition of being a proffesional writer. As a result he starts researching suicides, going on to web sites and attending local suicide hotspots. Eventually he meets Tommy Cassidy (Colm Meaney, who I raved about in my review of Layer Cake).

Tommy is a suicidal drunk who is about to jump off a local bridge when Paul finds him, eventually they get talking and Paul persaudes Tommy to jump in front of his train, but their is a catch (isn't their always), Tommy wants some money now, so he can do a few of the things he wanted to do in the last few days before his death, after much debating between the two they agree.

That is really as much as I can say about this film without spoiling it, although I think the film does that pretty easily on its own. The main thing that really grated me about this film was the performance by Gemma Arteton who is the new Bond girl. She is simply stunning to be fair, and I believe she has done some good pieces of acting but in this she is truly god damn awful, she has a fake thick scouse accent and it's so bad I was tempted to walk out.

The ending of the film was about all that was good about it, for two reasons, it was a nice little twist in the plot and secondly it meant I could leave the cinema and never think about this god awful film ever again (apart from destroy it on dooyoo obviously).

The big shame with it though, and the thing that winds me up is that it had the potential of being a good film, the plot line is there. But it's almost like they couldn't work out if they were making a serious film or a comedy and in reality ended up with getting neither right. All I can do is strongly suggest that you never waste your time on this film, it has a rating of 5.7/10 on IMDB and I think that is really flattering.

Summary: For your own sake, stay away.