A poor man's Tarantino

Director James Rogan was the youngest Brit feature director - only 18 when he cranked out this Play For Today meets crack drama. Unusually, he didn't come through the normal routes (either getting trained at licence-payer's expense by the BBC and then buggering off as soon as, or learning the wham-bam bad habits of ad/video directors) but was mentored by something called the Children's Film Unit.

Anyway, Neil Stuke plays a nerdy gunman trying to off a Mr Big while, on the other side of town, a wounded gunman holds a couple hostage. Wordy as Tarantino on FF, and evidently made by people who've stayed in watching films rather than been out doing drugs. Promising, though.

Verdict: Second-hand.