Tim Kirkby directs Charlie Hunnam, Mel Gibson and Lucy Fry in this low key murder mystery set in modern Hollywood.

Hunnam is the disgraced cop turned society drop out forced to take on a case with nothing more than a bad attitude, a bicycle and a scraggly beard. Mel is a gregarious luvvie accused of murdering his wife. The whole thing is sub Raymond Chandler, weak Big Lebowski. A slew of quirky characters are met and then passed over. The mystery is pretty straight forward after all the faffing. Mel shines in his richest role post downfall but he isn’t around for half the movie. Doubt I’ll remember watching it in a year’s time.

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