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Three and Out
Three and Out has an intriguing premise that turns out to be something of a misdirection, but it's good enough for a rental with a pizza.
Not the most promising storyline ever pitched is it? But you can't help wondering where it's going to go, and in fact it doesn't take long before it morphs into a buddy movie, matching Crook's hapless everyman with Colm Meaney's world-weary suicide risk. You may remember Colm as Chief O'Brien in the various Star Treks, though he's contributed far grittier performances in his lesser-known roles such as in Intermission and Layer Cake. He's the perfect man to play a belligerent drunken Irishman and he's by far the best thing in the movie - well at least until Imelda Staunton shows up.
Three and Out has a great cast and scores well at the beginning and end, but limps a little through the middle. It's not a comedy, though you get the strange impression it wants to be. It's just a story, and a likeable one at that. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - Gemma Arterton's boobs make their screen debut. To enjoy this film you should be: aware that it's not what it says on the tin.
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Mackenzie Crook (the drawn lanky Gareth from The Office) is a London Underground train driver who has the misfortune to
have two people fall under his train in a month. If a third one does it before the month is out (just a weekend away),
he'll get a ten-year payoff ... so starts his quest to find someone who'll kill themselves for his benefit.
Director Jonathan Gershfield has only done TV before this, and it doesn't surprise me. Made as a two-part TV movie, this
might have been more successful, but it does wear a little thin around the middle. Gemma Arterton, the head girl
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