Mr. Nice

ger; [mr. nice]; ein brite lernt drogen kennen und wird zu einem gesuchten schmuggler.; (abgedreht, trotzdem wartet man immer auf die parabel);

Fun, flashy, and very transparent in its theatricality - an exaggerated, muscular adaptation of a (very likely exaggerated and biased) adaptation of a real life. Ifans is excellent, as is Thewlis. A wonderful little trippy score by Philip Glass too!

Favours hipster cool and light fun over complex characters and chaotic realism. It makes for an enjoyable but uninspiring watch.

Thewlis' great talent has been MIA since Mike Leigh's 1993 Naked but here he delivers a caricature of British cultural audacity that is so outrageously vivid it deserves the term Dickensian.

Not a bad tale.

Good film, had it been given the gloss of "blow" as Mr Marks story deserves, it would have been a great film.