Perrier's Bounty

This is yet another brutal Irish comedy-thriller, all bullets, booze and blarney. The chief figure in its line-up of usual suspects is Brendan Gleeson, who made his name as the infamous crook Martin Cahill in John Boorman's The General and co-starred with Colin Farrell in Martin McDonagh's classic Irish crime movie, In Bruges . This time, in a movie scripted by Mark O'Rowe (who wrote the outstanding TV film Boy A ), Gleeson is a Dublin underground boss sending his heavies to collect gambling debts from small-timer Cillian Murphy, who gets unexpected assistance from two would-be suicides, his errant dad (Jim Broadbent) and a depressed girlfriend (Jodie Whittaker). The characterisations are a little too determinedly eccentric, the result highly watchable.