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Title: Embarrassing
Review: This is one of the few movies I've seen over the past 20 years that I have wanted to walk out of after ten minutes. The story, setting and characters all suck. A creaky script is dragged further through the mud by the clumsy attempts of Jude 'quite posh really" Law to portray a joyriding adolescent, and all action is pedestrian, predictable and cliché-ridden in its presentation. The phenomenon of teenage boys TWOC and driving Volvo estates through shop windows is potentially a great cinema story, but it's not one that is told here. This is a piece of tat which was an embarrassment to British film-making at the time and, next to a genuine criminal caper like "Lock, Stock..." looks like one of the Children's Film Foundation's poorer efforts. Really, don't waste your time on it. I wish I hadn't.
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