miscast and badly direct and atrociously write and this be watchable if you have an hour or two to kill or be suffer from insomnia and but only just . robert carlyle fully realise his potential a an actor of supreme mediocrity with only one expression to his repertoire ( that of a chronically constipate football hooligan nurse a crippling inferiority complex ) and which he manage at time to alter slightly by flare his nostril and bar a row of skewed yellow teeth ( this to indicate anger and tenderness and grief and surprise and horror and hilarity and compassion and etc . ) in his role a the best marine engineer in the uk and son of a university professor he be about as convincing a my neighbour cat . tom courtenay and equally miscast and slur and mistime every line and appear permanently souse to the eyeball and and would seem no more able to tell a flood from a puddle of his own urine if he be stand in it . all in all and another silly attempt on the part of the british to imitate hollywood pulp at it most rubbishy . the dialogue be a series of badly deliver clichés while the action be disjoint while the plot be pointless and amputate while and the character and if you can call them that and do not even make it into the basic two dimensional sphere of their american counterpart .