Andrew Carlin

I should have known better. The warning sign was there. Right at the start. "Sky Original". I've struggled through a fair few of them, but this was the first one that I abandoned some 40 minutes in. I want to be entertained. Goodness knows I pay Sky enough every month to try and achieve that. But if a film hasn't somehow 'grabbed' me after 40 minutes then I feel that it never will. I can't say that nothing happened because it did, twice. But I found myself not really caring. I was not invested in any of the characters that I'd seen to that point. So I had no desire to see how things turned out for them. Having read the spoilers in a couple of the reviews I'm quite content to leave 'Sharp Corner' in the deleted section of my PVR.

I recorded all the episodes, intending to binge-watch them in one go. My binge lasted for precisely one episode whereon I deleted them all. The inept raid on the terrorists flat, followed by the first ever car chase involving a camper van chasing a motorcycle just killed it for me. I must follow my own advice and avoid anything that contains the words "a SKY original".

The precis for this film made it sound interesting. But the moment that I saw "a SKY original" pop up in the opening 'credits' I just knew that it would be poor. And I wasn't wrong. A CIA black site with just two chain link fence gates to protect the entrance? And it was all downhill from there.

A Poor Man's John Wick. Dull, dull, dull.