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Any film that has both a fight director and a dance choreographer is probably doing something right.

There is great chemistry between them and Jaques knows when to tread lightly, letting their natural humour take over.

This film really does do something genuinely new with its old, grinding tropes - but once the veil has been lifted, the mask removed and the mechanics beneath all these devices exposed, no mystery remains.

The plot developments become progressively more ludicrous and inconsistent and the dialogue offers lead where ham and cheese would be much more appetising.

It's hard to say yet whether this will appeal beyond the club scene.

The off-kilter predicaments at times feel like increasingly disconnected sketches and the narrative, for the most part, just wanders along as wide-eyed and disorientated as Alice herself.

This is comedy in the Shakespearean sense, the whole story revolving around the importance of luck.

Corduner is on exceptional form and imbues the early part of the film with warmth and hope.

Richard Coyle is decent in the title role, his engaging lead performance is a solid, if not star making turn.

Much of the humour in the film depends on contrasting viewers' expectations of rural life with the paraphernalia of Sixties spy movies and Seventies cop shows.