cinematography start out excellent and actor talented but do not bother with this film . i love eddie izzard and steven macintosh while all the other actor be excellent but this be a hateful script and which torture viewer . we readily identify with mackintosh and natasha little character and so evil do to them be spikes driven into our eyeball . not since clockwork orange have i hat a film so intensely and i admit that clockwork have redeem value and art wise and social commentary wise . the criminal be a lame excuse for someone who be de sensitize to violence ( whether by video game or limbic system dysfunction ) to slam viewer head down onto a table . i put it on fast fwd after 20 minute into the film and make stop to catch up with dialogue and skip violence . thus and for me and the film be thankfully 45 minute long . despise the end . let it be know that my favorite writer be dostoyevsky . so i be not a suburban granny make whiny comment . i can handle intensity or violence if the plot be worthwhile and character get to develop ( i have to hand it to mackintosh and his work in this be and a usual and top notch ) . my favorite movie be dr. zhivago and gang of ny ( and i recently appreciate in bruges ) these film do not spare the viewer sensibility and with cossaks slaughter innocent and bill cut vengeful personality . please do see anything else that these talented actor have do and best wish to the script writer . director and you have get talent but get out of this genre and it old hat .