Thriller fans will be familiar with the situation: you can't see the expression on the face behind the surgeon's mask as he reaches for the scalpel. But what if he were not even a doctor? ... Even though some of its developments - especially a man falling hundreds of feet down Cheddar Gorge and surviving - take a lot of believing, this remains a suspenseful thriller about a bogus doctor who gets away with murder. Close enough to reality to be pretty chilling, the film stars Paul McGann as the hospital porter who longs to escape his mundane existence and afford holidays in far-away places. He gets his chance when, packing the effects of a young doctor killed in a car crash, he comes across a letter confirming an interview at a hospital in Bristol. McGann is stickily-palmed plausible as the man always on the edge of being found out, Tom Wilkinson excellent as a suspicious superior and Amanda Donohoe effective, if not at her best, as the gullible nurse who mistakes incompetence for inexperience. Recommended to all except those with a mortal fear of hypodermic needles.


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