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Two young women, Susan Lynch and Rachel Weicz, each saddled with an unwholesome and brutal boyfriend, join forces when one of the men accidentally dies after they have subdued him with a scaffolding pole. Appreciating that they could be accused of murder, they then face the task of disposing of the body.
The "Thelma and Louise" theme combines (reinforced by the urban Scottish setting) with that of the superior "Shallow Grave" but as events progress, various murky plot elements intrude, with Alex Norton as an unabashedly corrupt cop, Maurice Ro毛ves as the sadistic brother of the dead man, and Iain Glen as the other boyfriend, each turning up to menace the doughty heroines. You can bet there will be a bloodbath before the day is through.
It is of course a black comedy, although some over-sensitive souls have already taken this m茅lange of drugs, violence, blackmail, and murder far too seriously. Perhaps the wrong note is struck close to the beginning when a dog is tortured. Humans can have their heads blown off and worse but when a finger is laid on a dog, a hallowed taboo is breached. Feminists will no doubt applaud that without exception the men are amoral crooks, sadists, or cretins while the women abjure their victimhood by superior intellect and resourcefulness and will eventually win out.
Susan Lynch and Rachel Weicz, the latter with a surprising blonde hairdo, endure beatings and worse discomforts with phlegmatic fortitude, and for a supposed comedy the gore is spread pretty thickly. But at least nobody could accuse the director Bill Eagles or his writer Simon Donald of mealy-mouthed timidity.
