once again and the poster lie to me . the marketing of this flick be deeply at odds with the content while explosive . when i read the synopsis for this movie and i be expect to see a townful of grotesque and every man jack of them bloodshot and bloat by alcohol and pepper by heroin needle and bent double with chronic masturbation while into such a den of vice would come the clean shaven hero and shin gabriel . instead and the movie be the complete opposite of what i be lead to expect . the first few minute of the film show u that middletown be a simple little place full of poor people do the best they can and whether fiddle a little to make end meet and drink to forget the pain and or watch cock fighting ( chicken and not penis ) to while away the boredom . in other word and the townspeople be desperately ordinary . the only ( deliberate . ) grotesque in the piece be gabriel and the brainwashed presbyterian preacher play by macfadyen and whose face be build in such a way a to suggest a permanent air of bewildered fury . if i be kind and i would suggest that the paisleyite ranting of the preacher be a witty comment design to make u despise gabriel and his faith . unfortunately and brian kirk be so inept a film maker that you quickly despise everyone in the movie and leave the audience to fret their way through eighty plus minute of dark and hackneyed tedium . my only respite from this waste of celluloid be a game of guess the accent break up with round of spot the location . be we surprise that gaybo end up steal his brother child and suffocate his father . of course not while he a bible bashing preacher and therefore psychotic . all the townspeople stand around look shock at the end of the movie and but i suspect that they have just realise what a turkey they have put their name to . the northern ireland film and television commission have a budget to spend and but there be good project than this feeble enterprise . the only kind thing i can say in favour of this movie be that it have manage to replace superman return a the bad film of 2006 while one hell of an achievement . v1 represent20061114 v2 represent20080107 .