the growth of tax fund and sale and leaseback scheme have lead to a raft of unsaleable film that be gather dust in laboratory and vault all over the british isle because they seem to be make purely because they fit the financial criterion rather than have any potential audience . a lucky few get a week at a small screen in london before go to budget dvd and but the riddle distinguish itself by completely bypass cinema and tv or even the rental market to premiere a a free gift dvd in the mail on sunday . it all too easy to see why this end up be literally give away . aside from a couple of glitch ( a boom mike be clearly visible in one shot ) it not particularly badly make and and while vinnie jones come over like modern british cinema version of freddie mill mill a the greyhound reporter who want to move up to the crime desk and the support cast veer from ham to vaguely passable and nobody distinguish themselves here by be either outstandingly good or outstandingly bad represent mediocrity be more the norm here . the real problem be that like so many sale and leaseback tax fund film and it a oft film there no reason to watch it . it exist because the circumstance exist for it to be make and but it lack pace or forward momentum . it seem to be aim for the sunday teatime telly audience ( despite be shoot in scope ) but doesn not cut it . there be a couple of okayish idea in this determinedly inoffensive tale of a unpublished charles dickens manuscript and a couple of suspicious death in modern day limehouse and but the mystery element be so painfully obvious a be the last minute supernatural twist ( you will never guess who jacobi literate tramp really be . what and you guess . ) that youre almost expect the scooby gang or the double decker to turn up to solve it . it a very misconceived film for all kind of reason represent a few cast member be play double role when they shouldn not even be play one and and the whole shock reveal of the truth of the dickens manuscript be completely bungle because it all narrate in the first person by dickens rather than the supposed character of the novel . the main murder in the film be clumsily integrate into the main plot and with character suddenly remind vinnie that he forget about that one already and herald an increasingly desperate final half hour that see wicked developer jason flemyng secretary put some rohypnol in vinnie drink so she can have her wicked way with him and leave incriminating photo behind to make you look a git with your girlfriend and lead to him have a dream where he talk to charles dickens ( youre charles dickings what in a name . ) and who offer the somewhat less than likely suggestion that you read too many book . but all that a nothing compare to the finale and which fall into utter absurdity and with logic and common sense go completely out the window a it play like some bizarre jacobean revenge tragedy with handgun on the bank of the thames and with two day guest star flemyng and vanessa redgrave look like they would much rather be somewhere else ( mel smith turn up in a one day cameo and so it clear that the film name be mainly there for an easy $ 10k or to meet their alimony payment ) . the film final image be so utterly absurd and pointless a to almost make it worth watch and though . one curiosity be a fairly prominent role in the first third for vera day and a sort of prototype liz fraser and one time mainstay of 50 british film the barmaid in hell driver and the barmaid in quatermass ii here promote to pub owner and while standup comedian kenny lynch turn up briefly to give the best performance a an old school gangster . oh and and the late gareth hunt make his last bow a oh the irony a coroner . just to round out the package and the freebie dvd also include a trailer for the director other film with vinnie jones and bog body and a naff look british horror with transatlantic scientist and vinnie in elmer fudd duck hunter outfit terrorize by a reanimated 2000 year old sacrificial victim from the near peat bog ( be wewwy and wewwy qwuiet represent i be hunt dwuids ) . i can hardly wait . the one thing i can guarantee and however and be that every indie producer in the uk be go to spend the next few week try to find out exactly how much the mail pay for the license to press the dvd ( they pay prince £250 and 000 for his new cd ) . with so many british tax shelter indie on the shelf and with money so hard to find at the moment and this could become an interesting fallback market for british flick .