Belated DVD release for Stephen (Blade) Norrington’s flaccid 2001 meditation on the nature of, wince, ‘celebrity culture’. Max Beesley, ineffably irritating in Alfie mode, is Billy Byrne, a talentless wannabe whose driving desire for fame sends him on a Hellish Journey? through London’s criminal drug-dealing S&M underworld. Hateful characters, no discernible narrative voice, and hackneyed visuals. A mistake.
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