4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Didn't enjoy

KATHYTHOM from from Orpington, 22nd March, 2008

I try to be fair but this was a really boring film! I ended up fast forwarding wondering if it would pick up and it never happened! Don't waste your money!

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Pants

A Customer from London, 11th March, 2008

Great cast, script neither here nor there but could have been decent. Altogether just hopeless.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Plodding

Pinkmat from , 28th March, 2008

Don't waste your time on this film unless you are such a fan of Stephen Mangan that you'd watch him do anything. He's good. I like him a lot but he was wasted in this plodding unromantic, sad film about characters for whom you don't care about in the end. There was no change of pace. The best humour came from David's cleaner/assistant but even that didn't ring true. No-one in it seemed to be happy nor have any prospect of happiness. At 77 minutes this film is mercifully short.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

A decent written realistic low budget little gem with a strong ending

A Customer from Pudsey, Leeds, 28th January, 2008

The opening moments of the film centred on the main character stupidly dumping his long term girlfriend for another. After delivering the news a twist of fate occurs and unwittingly receives his just desserts from the other woman (with regards to the other woman I seriously wanted to slap some sense into her towards the latter stages of the film for reasons you'll no doubt realise). Moving on from the opening sequences.....he (main guy) begins to reassesses/revaluates his relationship decision abilities without any clear conviction and finally starts to realize the grass isn't so green on the other side. What can he do to rectify this major dilemma?..Well watch and find out... Personally I wouldn't say its in the category of some of the classic Woody Allen releases but even so I enjoyed this in so many ways. To be really critical the acting, for me, at certain points lets the film down. However, I recommend this to anybody who enjoys serious/moody relationship type based films - not Hugh Grant (no disrespect to him or his films). Beware, NOT for those who would like to spend 85 minutes watching a thrill-a-minute blockbuster or a light hearted epic please stay away it seriously is not your bag! 3.5/5.

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good effort

A Customer from London, 14th October, 2009

low key, humourous, dont expect too much and watch it with your partner.....

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The worst Brit-flick EVER?

swainy from , 28th March, 2009

This was so dull, even on fast forward. The actors seemed to be bored by the script, which was full of cliches. Nothing happens very slowly-it's only 70 mins. long but it seems like an eternity. So bad it's not funny. Avoid!

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unsmirking the sarcasm

A Customer from Buckfastleigh, 17th November, 2008

Isn't Stephen Mangan (he of Green Wing fame) just a bit too comedy sketch show to convey serious dramatic intent? Yes is the answer. It feels more like a limp comedy-drama for TV than a 'proper' film. There's too many yawningly familiar telly actors. (and that horrible bulldog-faced John Henshaw is in it too - as an implausible swinger) The relationship-roundabout for thirty-somethings in Camden. Jumping on and off one another. The constant whirligig of vapid emotions. 'Relationships are about Moments'. Stephen Mangan is falling in love. Then falling out of love. With this one. Or not with that one. But, ok - with that one. He's far too oily to be credible as an angsty loser-in-love. Can't quite shake his smooth-operator smirk. I kept expecting him to come out with smarmy sarcasms. But the p-ss-taking punchlines aren't there. Instead you get awkward silences. And sensitive eyebrows (Mangans) It's all trying to be knowingly low-key. No big romantic gestures ala Richard Curtis. No sweet ending. Go and have a mope on that solitary park bench Mangan. You lost.

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