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The BBC were going to broadcast WAG THE DOG tonight but recent events in Iraq prevented this ( I really do wonder what planet these schedulers live on . Don`t they ever watch the news ? ) so instead the beeb showed DOWN OUT AND DANGEROUS instead . I had no idea what it was going to be about but as the credits started it was pretty obvious it was going to be a TVM . Oh dear not another disease of the week movie please
It opens with an affable derelict called Tim begging for money off passers by . An arrogant white collar worker refuses to give any money to this scrounger so gets stabbed to death by him which means Tim is either a psycho or we`re watching the rebirth of communism
Yep as you can guess this is an everyman gets stalked by a psycho from hell type plot that were dying out as this TVM was being produced so as you can imagine ( And as everyone on this page has said ) there`s nothing new here . Mr psycho befriends everyman , is invited into everyman`s house does him a few dubious favours , cancels his credit cards , looses him his job and at the climax gets involved in a fight to the death while the hopeless cynical cops ( This bit is based on reality I`m sure ) race to house and arrive 30 seconds too late to prevent good overcoming evil
Yes it just follows a formula but what sets it apart from most of these stories is the performance of Richard Thomas who plays Tim with effortless charm . Okay when Tim`s in psycho mode it looks like a bad impersonation of Dennis Hopper but most screen psychos do , but strangely this a fairly likable thriller possibly down to the fact it`s underplayed
The BBC were going to broadcast WAG THE DOG tonight but recent events in Iraq prevented this ( I really do wonder what planet these schedulers live on . Don`t they ever watch the news ? ) so instead the beeb showed DOWN OUT AND DANGEROUS instead . I had no idea what it was going to be about but as the credits started it was pretty obvious it was going to be a TVM . Oh dear not another disease of the week movie please
It opens with an affable derelict called Tim begging for money off passers by . An arrogant white collar worker refuses to give any money to this scrounger so gets stabbed to death by him which means Tim is either a psycho or we`re watching the rebirth of communism
Yep as you can guess this is an everyman gets stalked by a psycho from hell type plot that were dying out as this TVM was being produced so as you can imagine ( And as everyone on this page has said ) there`s nothing new here . Mr psycho befriends everyman , is invited into everyman`s house does him a few dubious favours , cancels his credit cards , looses him his job and at the climax gets involved in a fight to the death while the hopeless cynical cops ( This bit is based on reality I`m sure ) race to house and arrive 30 seconds too late to prevent good overcoming evil
Yes it just follows a formula but what sets it apart from most of these stories is the performance of Richard Thomas who plays Tim with effortless charm . Okay when Tim`s in psycho mode it looks like a bad impersonation of Dennis Hopper but most screen psychos do , but strangely this a fairly likable thriller possibly down to the fact it`s underplayed