Misogynists delight

Rating: 6/10 (12 February 2006)

Whilst I enjoyed the the exploding telephone, mattress and TV sets,with attendant suspense as to whether they'd go off and if so with how big an explosion, Europe was far too sketchy(even the London rain looks more like NY's, and pillar box, phone box and double-decker bus in a rapid chain of frames just look ridiculous- almost as bad as all the nine-branched candlesticks for the benefit of thickos in the later mother/son farewell scene) acting was weak and it went on too long, especially the meals. The worst bit, though, was the prolonged death scene on the houseboat with the woman staggering about half-naked, having been shot twice, then left full-frontal streaming blood in a deckchair. And is it just me who objects when a whole room of nasty men all slavering to have a go can blame a woman for giving the final order? Sheila