Comes a Bright Day (Simon Aboud, 2012)

The British off-centre heist film has become quite a sub-genre of its own, and Comes a Bright Day ticks all the boxes, with the narrator's voiceover, random violence, self-consciously quirky elements and Geoff Bell in the wings. Basically, a young lad dreaming of a brighter future in the big city gets caught up in a bungled armed robbery at a jeweller's and the rest of the story is the unfolding of the hostage situation that ensues. Timothy Spall is also in attendance for star value as the jeweller, getting some fairly cringeworthy monologues on what precious objects represent in terms of history and dreams. It passes by innocuously enough, and at the same time is quite untrue to life and pointless as an exercise.

4/10