Shallow Grave

Impressive first feature from Danny Boyle
At his best, Danny Boyle is one of our finest living filmmakers. And if this 1st feature isn't quite up to the level of the
best of his work, it still shows one heck of a lot of talent.

That said, while enjoyable and full of energy and solid performances, this didn't hold up as well on 2nd viewing as
I'd hoped. This caper drama about 3 self obsessed, comically awful 20 somethings who fall into a bag of money
and slowly turn on each other has a lot of dark cynical fun in it, but there are just too many logic holes and too
many character leaps to be fully satisfying.

A lot of the twists are clever (although some are predictable) but rather than characters evolving, they seem to lurch
suddenly on their way down the rat hole to beyond forgivable. You accept the sudden transformations because they're
there, but it did leave me wondering `when did THAT suddenly happen to the character'. In turn, that underlines the
film's somewhat...

Interesting twists and turns
If you enjoy happy endings, you might want to skip this one....This is one of Ewan Macgregor's early pictures and it has some surprises...

I love this movie.
The characters are slightly formulaic but all in all, it's one of my favorite movies. Ewan McGregor is a highly lovable jerk, through and through. The female character is predictable in that stereotypical female manipulative way which is tiresome but Eccleston is just the right amount of creepy to make up for it. I'd highly suggest it.

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