Anthony and Tom (Michael Caine and Dylan Moran) are starving actors. And, when you see them in action, you can easily understand why. It's not that they can't act so much as they tend to have very inflated views of their skills. As a result, the two are barely surviving in bad theater and need some sort of plan. Anthony has a weird one....for Tom to pose as a mobster sent to collect a 50,000 pound debt. How does he know about it? Well, Anthony's been slumming it...hanging out at a tough waterfront bar...perhaps for research for an acting role in the future. Naturally, this is a very stupid and dangerous thing, but it goes off without a hitch...at least at first. However, if they are discovered, the debtor or the mob could, if they are LUCKY, break their legs!
As an American, it helped watching this film with the closed captions on....and the captioning for this movie is very good. A few of the accent are strong, particularly when Moran is getting into various characters and I assume many Brits have the same problem with some American movies.
So is this film any good? Well, if you read through the reviews on IMDB, you'll notice an overall score of 6.0 and reviews that are all over the place. Some really hated it, some really loved it and many were somewhere in between. So what did I think? Well, the film was, at times funny and entertaining. However, it also made very little sense once Tom found he was in love with one of the people they robbed...and this made the movie enjoyable but highly flawed. As a result, the plot sort of went off the rails a bit. My advice is to watch it but just don't expect it all to make a lot of sense. I noticed some said the opposite...that the film improved as it went along. For me, the further the film went the funnier it got BUT the more it made little sense. But on the plus side...it is amazing to see Caine posing as a woman!
As an American, it helped watching this film with the closed captions on....and the captioning for this movie is very good. A few of the accent are strong, particularly when Moran is getting into various characters and I assume many Brits have the same problem with some American movies.
So is this film any good? Well, if you read through the reviews on IMDB, you'll notice an overall score of 6.0 and reviews that are all over the place. Some really hated it, some really loved it and many were somewhere in between. So what did I think? Well, the film was, at times funny and entertaining. However, it also made very little sense once Tom found he was in love with one of the people they robbed...and this made the movie enjoyable but highly flawed. As a result, the plot sort of went off the rails a bit. My advice is to watch it but just don't expect it all to make a lot of sense. I noticed some said the opposite...that the film improved as it went along. For me, the further the film went the funnier it got BUT the more it made little sense. But on the plus side...it is amazing to see Caine posing as a woman!