This award-winning prison drama is about a murderer who would have hanged for his crime in the 1960s but for a medical condition that cast doubt on his sanity. First-time director David Hayman attempts to portray the psychological brutality of prison life by actually showing what is going on inside the lead character's disturbed, drug-influenced brain, rather than the physical brutality of films such as 'Scum'. But the effect is a meandering, schizophrenic, mishmash that will have most viewers reaching for the channel zapper. It's almost impossible to tell what is happening most of the time and even harder to care. It's tough to recognise Iain Glen from his well-groomed TV gangster drama The Firm as the dirty, foul-mouthed, often naked wretch on show here. As an acting exercise, though, it's something of a triumph over an incomprehensible script.


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