A pleasant surprise

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2002)

From the title, and the opening ten minutes this looks like a hopeless case of boring mainstream.
But you keep watching, because there's a slight edge to it, and the reward is an increasingly interesting series of devices to develop the plot.
And having acquired varying degrees of dislike for all of the characters, we are presented with the conundrum of a murder mystery - the delightful twist being that we draw our own conclusions as to the identity of the killer.
Pleasingly original, not something that can be said about many of today's drearily expensive productions.