Another awful offering from Danny Boyle, who seems to have completely lost the plot after such great films as Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary and The Beach. Obviously unaware of the factors that made his own earlier movies so successful, he treats us in this film to an assault on the senses (in the form of non-stop diatribes from vacuum cleaner salesman played by Timothy Spall) that has few or no redeeming features. The fact that it was made for television is small consolation.
