Cat Run: DVD Review

Cat Run DVD Review

Rating: M
Released by Vendetta Films

When two childhood friends, Anthony and Julien give up on their childhood dreams to start a detective agency, they find their first case throwing them in deeper than they could ever have imagined.

Their first investigation is into high class escort and mother Cat (Paz Vega) who's stolen a hard drive implicating a government minister in the death of a hooker.

When Cat goes on the run, she's pursued with deadly intentions by assassin Helen (Janet McTeer) - and into the middle of this cat and mouse game are thrown Anthony and Julien....

Cat Run is a flashy, stylish, highly violent thriller in places which while lacking a great deal of originality is watchable enough thanks to Paz Vega and Janet McTeer who give their all to the role. McTeer, who I've only ever seen doing more, shall we say, intelligent fare than this is aiming to be. While it tries to rip off the gangster stylings of Guy Ritchie in terms of look and feel, it doesn't have the deftness of touch to quite carry it off.

With drippings of occasional humour, salacious nudity to start off with, a bit of tongue in cheek here and there and some quite graphic violence, it's a queasy mix which doesn't quite hit all the right buttons and ends up being neither fish nor fowl.

Extras: Behind the scenes, deleted scenes.

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