An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this movie but since I have a weak spot for Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though this movie looked decent and the cast was pretty neat, I really had a hard time to care about the damned thing. Basically, the whole thing was just a mess. First of all, even though the poster was not bad, it was completely misleading. Indeed, never during the whole movie do you get to see those 2 actors together in this fashion and it gave the feeling that Colin Farrell might be Keira Knightley’s bodyguard which wasn’t the case at all. Anyway, this movie turned out to be some kind of British remake of ‘Carlito's Way’ which wasn’t necessarily a bad idea but, unfortunately, they went for a quirky tone which was a rather misguided choice. To make things worse, they added way too many half-baked sub-plots and barely developed characters and the way this former gangster and this former film star got acquainted was never convincing whatsoever.  I mean, there were some good ideas, here and there, but most of this movie just didn’t work at all. To conclude, even though I have seen worse, the whole thing was eventually pretty weak and I don’t think it is worth a look.