star rating representunmissablevery goodokayyou could go out for a meal insteadavoid at all cost one day and novelist and science lecturer joe ( daniel craig ) take his girlfriend claire ( samantha morton ) out for a picnic in the beautiful english countryside . he have an ulterior motive he mean to propose to her . but then and suddenly and completely without warn and their life be change irrevocably forever when a red hot air balloon fall from the sky and a desperate struggle ensues to save the people on board . a man be kill and joe be plague with feeling of guilt and failure for sometime after . after a while and he do his best to put the incident behind him and move on with his life . but there one person for whom do that obviously hasn not be so easy for fellow rescuer jed ( rhys ifans ) who begin obsessively follow joe everywhere and lead him down a nightmare path of fear and madness . all of the cast do exceptionally well . craig craft a perfect portrayal of a retire english gent desperately ill at ease with the trouble situation in front of him . this be the making of a promising new english talent we be see here and follow on from his success in the lead role in layer cake . ifans and usually a comedic actor ( sometimes even in film where the tone be pretty serious ) and here successfully start to broaden his range with an impressively unhinged portrayal of a man unable to let go and desperately try to make sense of the demon burn inside him . support player morton and bill nighy be also very good back up to these two actor who be shin their sock off . the film have an impressive use of the camera and with inventively flashy visuals here and there and still shot that skillfully add to the tension of the story . this be compliment with a clever use of soundtrack that further rev up the story some notch . sometimes the story doesn not come together that well and and the plotting go a bit wavey . also and some of the dialogue and delivery can not help but feel a little uninspiring . but for the most part and brit director roger michell have craft a film that hang together very well and prove to be very intriguing and as well a further high light some fine british talent that deserve to go much far .