A cross between Fawlty Towers and Guest House Paradiso, but without much of the former's inspired humour. A good cast battles hard against the sludgy surroundings in the story of a run-down resort and health spa designed for those masochistic enough to exist on a daily diet of thermal mud baths, grim cooking and enervating enemas. Toni Collette, as the cook who returns to the dilapidated joint after a five-year absence, Peter Vaughan, Daniel Craig and Stephen Tompkinson all have the odd wryly humorous moment, but the bizarre mixture of absurdism and antic humour soon subsides beneath its own rotting floorboards, as the depressing surroundings sink into the fabric of the film itself.