This East End gangland yarn has a really tough time deciding whether it wants to be a thriller or a comedy. If it is a comedy, it's an incredible violent and foul-mouthed one that sends its hero Nicky (Chiwetel Ejiofor) out on to the streets of Walthamstow after a four-year sentence for something he alleges he didn't do. After foiling a post office raid, albeit reluctantly, he comes to the attention of local gangsters Rameez (Sidh Solanki), whose post office it was, wild Mickey (Max Beesley) whose raid it was, and Fitch (James Bolam) who once ruled the local roost and now wants Nicky to kill Rameez. Meanwhile, Nicky's in love with Noreen (Thandie Newton), daughter of a local copper, but needs Fitch's blood money to send his son to music college. Pretty complex (not to mention unlikely) stuff from writer Ol Parker, who couches his dialogue in something that comes across as halfway between rhyming patois and medieval English. Not very convincing on any level: Bolam's performance is the best thing on view.