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Full English Breakfast? More like a dogs dinner. Writing,acting,directing,editing as all sub standard. The dialogue at times is incredibly inane "France is so far away". Says one character who later takes the Eurostar to Paris. One of the actors does not say anything but he does bite his bottom lip to let us know he is thinking.The sound is often completely out of sink with the action. The padlock on the lock up could probably be cut with a pair of blunt scissors.The fake reviews on here are more literate than the script but as laughable as the film.Dave hits people with a golf club while playing the Four Seasons.No doubt celebrating his kill with some Lambrusco.The look of the film is like a school project and at no time does anything resembling a professional standard of film making occur. I watched this "film" and I use the term loosely as I was amazed that something so poor found its way onto Netflix.Avoid at all costs.Unless of course you want to buy a family pack of crisps and have a right East end knees up watching this trash.

This film has many different rhythms and paces. At first the prolonged sex scenes last so long that they became uncomfortable and disturbing.Although the sex with the prostitutes was consensual Depardieux grunted in almost pig like fashion as he lost himself in debauchery and lust. It had the feel of a porn film but with believable characters. The scenes with Depardieux and Bissett often have the feel of improvisation particularly at the beginning. It would have been nice to have seen more of the victims reactions to the abuse that they were subjected too. The unrepentant nature of the lead character is alarming and brutally honest.He does not seek to be cured even after his arrest makes his life fall apart. He shows no feeling for his victims and just is a serial abuser. His blunt attempts at seduction is seen to be successful in one instance due to his wealth and status and overt womanising. Like Bad Lieutenant this film delivers moments of brutality and spiritual abandon. In both films the central characters are spiralling out of control. The Gauguin nudes on the walls of the apartment are well placed. In all despite the lengthy sex scenes and drawn out almost real time arrest the film is well constructed and well acted. The surreal almost "bad actor" dialogues between Bissett and Depardieux as they confront the aftermath of his arrest fluctuates between the inane and the poetic. I really liked the line that,"The reverse of Love is not hate but indifference" delivered by Bissett. The fact that this film is based on true events adds weight to the subject matter. A difficult film to watch and an adult film on more than one level.