Synopsis
I'm getting tired of writing these bloody film reviews now. It's great watching them but then I tortue myself writing about them afterwards. Well anyway, this film is about two completely different people who come together to achieve a common goal, in this case.. Ł20m from the sale of a new superdrug created by Elmo McElroy (Samuel L Jackson), a pharmacist whose legitimate career was ruined by drug useage in a somewhat ironic and pointless introduction, after which Samuel L Jackson ages 30 years without looking any different. Who was it who said he couldn't play a 20-year-old?

You have your average yank in a kilt played by Shaft, your scouse git played by Robert Carlisle AKA the bad guy with the bullet in his brain from Tommorow Never Dies. You have Jim from The Royle Family playing a drug lord, a woman I don't know playing an assassin who comes across strangely attractive and has sex in a bath. You even get Meatloaf, like a bat out of hell and Rhys Ifans AKA Tall Pall from Kev and Pezza AKA Spike from Notting Hill, and it's quite an all-star cast, which makes for an interesting movie which won't bore you but at the same time won't open new doors to strange lands filled with purple mushrooms and vacuum-packed meat products.

The film is set mostly in Liverpool. Now like you might be thinking I originally thought it would be shit like the city itself. However this works out quite well in the end despite the feature of the football team, and not only serves as a fitting English location for a film that does make a mockery of itself a few times, but also acts as an Advertisement for a tourist attraction you never saw coming. Of course this is also a comedy, and is fittingly served numerous times by Samuel L Jackson in a kilt though in possibly the worst role I have ever seen from him and the other one entering a Manchester pub in a Liverpool shirt to rip the piss.

Story
The superdrug was created, you think, by Samuel L Jackson using only legal ingredients, none of the products involved are on any national governments restricted drug lists and this makes it the ultimate for dealers and users alike and is set to make Shaft and the man with the bullet in his head from Tommorow Never Dies very rich indeed. Of course nothing would be that simple, and people come and go between the chaos and Mini Coopers but in the end the drug dealers always win - as you should know by now.

Action
I've actually pretty much forgotten the film at this point, damn this is a good review. But I think I remember the box saying something about a good car chase near the beginning, also some club raving and gun-shooting and of course it's an 18 so expect some kind of adult entertainment.

The Verdict:

Action: 12/20
Location: 15/20
The blueness of the drug: 20/20
Meatloaf: 1/20
Having sex in a bath: 20/20

68%
"I actually really liked this movie"

Article Written By Jay
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