I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Will Graham, the fierce and intelligent London gangster, has retreated to the forest to escape the crime life. He is always in control and always on the edge. Will is the haunted center around which the other characters circle: Helen, his jaded, more refined, former lover--a chic restaurateur; Jonathan Rays Meyers, his charming, degenerate brother Dave, whose devastating death causes Will to face the temptations of the city again, and Bode, the complex villain and the film's catalyst. When he returns from the wilderness to uncover the truth about his brother's suicide, it becomes a quest that leads him into the darker reaches of menace and perversion, and into the arms of Helen.

A spirtual brother to Get Carter, this while well cast and nicely atmospheric is ultimately a disappointment. Mostly due to a complete lack of an ending. I like ambiguity as much as the next person but there is a difference between that and a feeling of incompleteness. The story of a brothers revenge and drawing back into a life he had left behind, up to the ending I was suitably interested if never wholly gripped by an all too subtle tale of revenge. All very nicely played by everyone (the cast is the best thing about it with Owen impressing as usual) but hampered by a feeling of all the characters being rather underwritten. But like I said, it feels more like a mood piece than anything else. Unfortunately you are left with the feeling of there being very little to get excited about.