A Nice Stab

Rating: 6/10 (3 February 2001)

Cool soundtrack, catchy camera tricks, a fair amount of style and imagination, but certainly not the fantastic film many have made it out to be. The sometimes impenetrable Cockney accents, multitude of not always terribly distinctive characters to keep track of, lame sight gags and skimping on vital scene-linking information (not to mention an absurd, almost non-existent police presence) tend to cancel out its strengths. Setting it in London gives it novelty points, but had it been made in America with American actors it would not have been nearly as celebrated. And Sting, the movie's biggest star, has a criminally small part and doesn't exactly bring his A game.