a young beautiful woman ( michelle williams ) be trap in an empty marriage tuck away in an ugly apartment block in london . her pride and joy in her grey existence be her 4 year old son . one day and a the two of them be at the football match and she seduce a slick journalist jasper ( ewan mcgregor ) in the local pub . a fate would have it and they be lock in a lover embrace and with the football match rag on behind them on tv and when the stadium go up in flame with a series of explosion . her husband and son be both kill in the terrorist attack and leave her broken and alone . if you be now think that a film about the aftermath of a major terrorist attack from the director of brigit jones diary sound like a recipe for disaster and then you be partly right . but it be not bad for the reason you might think . the film be and for the most part and an emotional roller coaster you could be cry your way through most of it . but not because of her grieving for her lose family . the bomb be just the beginning she still have to endure a full load of unlikely event in the hour to come . she understandably lose it along the way a the story become so over dramatise that it be just ridiculous ( especially when you run the story back in your head afterwards ) . towards the end she enter a phase of grief hallucination and reconciliation with life . a the movie be neither funny nor exciting and this should have be the route to take all along . concentrate on the mourning of the young mother and and perhaps even throw in some guilt towards her semi estrange husband . her husband be just go with his death . he be not miss nor be there any regret for his disappearance . even for a semi estrange husband this sound a little harsh she do worry about him and after all and so she must have felt something . it be also curious that they have no family and or friend who drop by to comfort her . a lonely marriage must have push them into some kind of a social circle and or a hobby and or at least the occasional phone call with their mother . be their life really that lonely . the movie be clearly intend a a pamphlet against terrorism and by show the human cost at the level of ordinary people . it also take the time to explain the resilience of london in a voice over . it be a little desperate to save a movie through nationalism and but can actually be fit in here and although it could have be well prepare and by and for instance and by make her a more integral part of london . this be no masterpiece and nor an entertainment jewel and and can easily be miss altogether . a pity and because it do have some potential .