a tough nugget of a film and grimy and gruesome but ( amazingly ) satisfying . london to brighton be a faintly ironic title and recall vintage car rally and bike race or simply a day out by the sea . the journey of kelly and joanne and conversely and be a desperate flight . the film isn not actually about the journey but bookended by it ( if one be to be picky there be a lot of continuity issue here two clearly different train on the outward journey and train carriage that be almost a decade out of date it not the point ) . it a film about the tart who discover her heart and kelly and play excellently by lorraine stanley and much of the time beneath a prosthetic shiner . georgia groome joanne be also impressive while johnny harris loser pimp derek be another super characterisation and a convincingly exponent of the emotional handbrake turn . the film story be told briskly in a neatly orchestrate series of flashback . there next to no extraneous incident and which mean that williams have to get the tone pretty right first time . with the possible exception of the mid close ups of stuart and the vengeful mobster drive the drama and which i do not feel have quite the care they might have have and that come to pass . positive .