The director summed this up as a fleshed-out working out of ideas from a short in which a young woman is recovering from yet another suicide attempt. Always beware hacks when they justify what they've done as being through a need to explore everyone's backstories.McMorrow piles on everything he can think of and it's all derivative: there's a Rorschach clone stalking a futuristic/gothic city overrun by religious fanatics under an obscurely oppressive government, cutting to Eva Green as the would-be suicide going hysterical with her mother in middle-class North London, Sam Riley (he of the excellent Control) seeing the dead and Bernard Hill agonising over his son's whereabouts. Having no confidence in one film, McMorrow gives us four, and then we have to suffer pointless narrative contortions as they're drawn together by hook and crook. A waste of time for all those involved.
3/10
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