Certainly not the first film to wring comedy out of suicide, Three and Out starts promisingly - perpetual sadsack London tube driver and occasional writer Paul Callow (Mackenzie Crook, best known to Us audiences as Ragetti from the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) has racked up a dual accident count on the tracks in under a month. The distraught Paul is then enlightened by his co-workers to the “three and out” rule - that is, hitting three people in a month opens doors to a payload that would finally let Paul leave his cramped, book-ridden London flat. Paul sets off on a brief montage scored to Blondie’s “One Way Or Another” to find a willing soul to lay his life down on the tracks - and so it goes, in this obvious comedy that unsuspectingly drops in out-of-place moments of pensive drama and ends with a late third act twist that rings stomach-churningly false.
- 11/11/2010
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
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