This film rewrites the thriller genre

Rating: Null/10 (13 October 2011)

Call me old-fashioned but isn't a thriller supposed to be kind of 'thrilling', isn't the clue in the name? I don't mind films that start slowly but this film never gets going. In fact, Gary Oldman's affectations make it even slower. Do we really need 3 images of him swimming in the Serpentine? Or wherever it's meant to be. I don't remember any meaningful dialogue, for me it was fairly obvious the way it was going to go, I couldn't have cared less about the characters. What a waste of the cream of British talent. I wouldn't even know where to start with 'How could it have been better?' A major major disappointment, with the all too brief exceptions of John Hurt and Kathy Burke.