Right time, wrong place

A young soldier (Jason Biggs), who thinks he's on his way to the warm Far East, is unceremoniously dumped in Greenland.

A clerical error has given him another name and he can't escape the military base commanded by a strange Colonel (Jeremy Northam). There he meets a pretty NCO (Natascha McElhone) who just happens to be the Colonel's squeeze.

And things begin to go terribly askew, all the more so when he discovers a secret bunker containing casualties from an abortive Vietnam mission.

Made in Iceland, and adapted from the novel No One Thinks of Greenland by John Griesemer, Guy X is well shot, more than decently acted and nicely directed by Saul Metzstein.

It's like a piece of naturalistic science fiction but is advertised as a comedy. Surely some mistake? There are few real laughs but it does sustain an atmosphere of weird realism that marks it out from the ordinary.

Guy X
Cert: cert15