Tu£sday

Clearly building on the success of Life on Mars and the relationship between John Simm and Philip Glenister comes Tu£sday; a movie about 3 separate groups of characters, all out to rob an Emerald from a bank and all decide to rob it at the same time.

Chaos ensues.

Except it doesn't. I didn't care about the characters. I didn't care about the storyline and the bad Liverpool and Glaswegian accents just grated on me.

Hoping it would be a kind of Lock, Stock with the multiple interwoven story lines centred around a bank robbery, i was woefully disappointed.

The time line jumps around between scenes and slowly builds up everyone's story. Unfortunately this is just confusing rather than clever. The robbery is deeply uninspired and just a little too 'regular' for a movie. Adrenalin-pumping it is not! The actors look bored throughout and the film ends with the most predictable anti-climax I've seen in a long while.

I waited and waited for something exciting to happen. But nothing does, it just plods along at its own little pace, then it ends.

The only commendation I can give it, is that it's a nice trim 79 minutes so you won't waste too much of your life on it. Even 3 of those are spent on the most dull opening credits I've seen in a long while.

The core idea of the script has a good and fairly original idea, namely that multiple people attempt to rob the same bank at the same time.

Unfortunately, the writer directed his own script and quite simply failed to tell the story in a coherent fashion on the screen. There is nothing particularly to fault about the acting (indeed there's a good cast) or technical aspects of the film, however the jumping back and forwards in the timeline just doesn't work right. Some scenes are repeated with slight variations, unfortunately the variations are so slight that it feels like you're suddenly watching a "+1" TV channel. The director also fails to make us care about (and therefore root for) a particular set of protagonists. The overall feeling at the end of the film is one of 'so what?'.

I suspect had the writer allowed someone else to direct his script we might have seen a much, much better movie.

Yes, this film was daring, it was a good try for this young director who intended to do in the new movie, new screen playing fashion. You know, this new way of making movies, with a complicated screenplay, a complicated story in the line of PULP FICTION. A kind of story as we see so often in the British and American film industry since nearly twenty years now, especially thrillers. This is a perilous experience, you have to be very caring about thousands of points. Here, he did his best, I guess, what that's a failure to me. Acting is awful, and that erases all the efforts already made for the screenplay. If you are lost in the understanding of all this mess, you get rapidly bored. But, I insist, that's not the only film like this. There was hundreds of movies like this. Hundreds. But it was a daring try.

Summary: A notorious gang of robbers known as "The Cowboys" rob a bank that is already been robbed by someone else.

Review: Boy, what a mess! Confusing and erratic back flashes, the same scene in the bank shown over and over from different angles and perspectives and a whole lot of unnecessary or unfinished plot strings. Starring John Simm and Philip Glenister, the great Duo from "Life on Mars" this could have been such a great, funny and entertaining movie. I think this movie is meant to be funny as well, but you don't get much of that. Interesting, how 74 minutes can take that long to pass. Boring.

Highlight: The Security Guard

Notable Actors: John Simm (Doctor Who), Philip Glenister (Life on Mars)

The movie really tries hard. And it checks every box it has to. Still it doesn't feel really like a classic. I didn't feel like I wasted my time though watching this. Still if you have seen a few movies with similar themes, you can see where this is going early on (the time hopping is nice, but has been used quite often too).

The actors are good, but the roles they have do not require them to do a lot. There is not that much character depth (although a few touches here and there are nice to see). I have no complaints about the framing/style of the movie, though I guess there are superior movies in those regards too. Just don't expect too much ...