Plot: Three Londoners are looking for an extra roommate to keep their home affordable. They're quite picky and fickle, but after a while, they do seem to have found the perfect roommate. Just a few days after the man moves in, they find him dead on the bed, with a bunch of cash stuck away in a suitcase.
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A simple but fun start to Danny Boyle's career. It's not the first film where a group of friends turns paranoid after a dark secret rips their friendship apart, and Boyle's direction isn't quite confident enough to set it apart from like-minded films, but the humor and entertainment value keep the film afloat.
Fox and McGregor are a lot of fun, the setup is amusing and even though there aren't any real twists, the pacing and limited runtime make sure the film never starts to drag or loses its momentum. Boyle still had to cover a large gap to get to Trainspotting, but if you want to see the first shimmers of his talent, you can't really go wrong with this one.
June 06, 2006
[review pending]