If you can believe in a slow-witted loner who also happens to be a mechanical genius - and this is said to be based on a real-life character - then you are half-way to enjoying this Australian film which contains elements of social drama and caper thriller and sometimes uneasily mixes its earthy language with delicate bursts of visual humour. The film's comedy stems from the partnership between slow, scarcely understanding Malcolm (Colin Friels) and the hardly brighter petty thief (John Hargreaves) who rooms at his house. The thief's blowsy, busty mistress (Lindy Davies) ultimately has to step in to ensure they come to no harm. Moments of embarrassment in the script are generally countered by the robbery sequences which have moments of high humour, particularly when Malcolm's mobile ashcans, invading a Swiss bank, are suddenly confronted by a guard at the very moment they're adjacent to other ashcans, brining a cri de coeur from the control van outside of 'There's too many of us! '


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