Headrush

After Don served up a delicious stuffed chicken with baby potatoes and assorted vegetables, we sat down over strawberry and raspberry coolie with vanilla ice-cream and watched Headrush. The film concerns a loser called Charlie who can't keep a job. His girlfriend, who works in a bank, is fed up that he's making nothing of his life nevermind earning enough money to get a flat of their own. He is promtly dumped and left with no option but to pull his life together and get back with her.

That premise has been used in many films but it is the way he carries this out and the other films characters that make this film stand apart.

Charlie and his best friend T-Bag decide to work for "the Uncle", a villan in the drug trade. They are to pick up a package in Amsterdam and bring it back. However, the police are on their tail and everyone connected with Charlie seems to get mixed up in the whole affair.

Notable guest appearances from the Fun Lovin' Criminals makes for a highly enjoyable scene as Huey plays a cross-dressing drug boss in Amsterdam who doesn't like getting blood on his rug. However, it is the solid performances from every cast member that makes this film perhaps more enjoyable than it should be, proving a great film from director Shimmy Marcus. Indeed the film has won a handful of awards on the independant circuit.

Get down to your local video library and grab a copy before it goes up in smoke.

I would give this film 3.5 body cavity searches out of 5.