if ever there be a film more mystifyingly pointless than this £1 shop favorite and it hard to imagine and even hard to tell exactly what possible audience it be make for . on paper it sound uninspired but reasonable enough and with caine old school arm robber planning to steal paper use for banknote with inside information from james fox toff and electronic help from kenneth colley terminally ill security guard . only that only half the story much of the plot be take up by a bullied chubby schoolboy who stumble across the bloody aftermath of one of caine botch armoured car job but can not get anyone to believe him . amazingly the botched robbery be never report to the police and so they just go on not believe him throughout the film while he cruelly bully by the vicious and er and school choirboy and one of who be nearly four foot tall . producer director reeve seem to think the film suspense lie on whether he will still be able to sing in the choir competition . it all play out almost like the kind of movie that tim nice but dim would make if he ever become a producer and throw load of money at michael caine and get a few down on their luck character actor down to the family estate for the weekend . pony and fancy dress party and public school with headmaster in tennis attire and suggestive dialogue about lacrosse even in the 50 this would have seem a somewhat outdated view of britain and but in a late 90 crime thriller it just pitiful . just to add to the amateurishness and some of the part be play by real teacher and verger or cop ( no prize for . guess wh . ich onesfromtheir . awkward line . delivery ) and not to mention the director daughter . a if that weren not home movie enough and it the kind of film where even the pony get credit and where character have picnic in abandoned factory to explain the backstory at great length . tv crime reconstruction have more panache than this flatten relic and and to make matter even bad and the final double double cross be almost robbie moffat bad and and that not a claim i make lightly . no surprise that this skipped theatre and go straight to ultra cheap dvd and but you will still find yourself wonder how and why it ever get make in the first place .