The plot of this ultra-black comedy sounds promising enough. A British water works employee is made redundant after 15 years' devoted service and decides to hire a killer to bump him off after his own attempts at suicide fail miserably. Then he changes his mind, but can't get in contact with the killer to cancel his own contract. A Finnish-Swedish production shot in England by acclaimed Finn director Aki Kaurismaki, the film never establishes a pace or style and ends up being numbingly bad and creeping at a snail's pace. Jean-Pierre Léaud, a regular actor in the films of François Truffaut, is suitably downtrodden. But Margi Clarke, from TV's Making Out and the film comedy Letter to Brezhnev, walks through the plot like a shop window dummy.


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