Whole Lotta Sole: Movie Review

Whole Lotta Sole: Movie Review

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Colm Meaney, Martin McCann, David O' Hara
Director: Terry George

In this independent comedy from Ireland, it's off to the world of hapless robbers and, erm, fish markets, for this flick.

Martin McCann is Jimbo, a man with a major gambling debt to the local mob and who, when threatened with the theft of his son by impotent mafioso Mad Dog Flynn (O'Hara) to pay back the debt, decides to rob the local fish market, figuring that it'll be rife in cash on a Friday in a predominantly Catholic area.

However, he bungles the robbery and is forced to go into hiding in an antique shop, run by Brendan Fraser's Maguire...

Soon, a hostage situation escalates and all manner of capers begin.

Whole Lotta Sole goes for British gangster comedy, but emerges with tedious, predictable "comedy" which is in no way amusing and whose schtick devolves rapidly into something testing your patience.

Fraser turns in a performance which is verging on the somnambulent and ever so slightly bored; and McCann isn't much better in a performance which screams first time actor, more than anything. The comedy of the piece is lacking and tires quickly, meaning the hostage situation is defused of suspense, tension and anything resembling a good story.

Predictable and outstaying its relatively short run time, Whole Lotta Sole blunders its comedy premise and settles for something which is far from enjoyable and, unfortunately, quite muddled, forgettable and messy.

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