Sorry To Bother You

THE outlaw takes a shot at the youth market in preposterous CGI adventure starring Taron Egerton.

ANDY’S RATING: ★★★★ In cinemas on Friday

RAPPER-turned-director Boots Riley’s unhinged debut takes us to an alternate-reality version of Oakland, California where a young black man called Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) has taken a soul-crushing job in telesales.

In the next cubicle is an old hand played by Danny Glover (who is once again “too old for this s***).

He offers some killer advice, “Use your white voice”. So Cassius makes himself sound like he’s got something stuck up every orifice (his voice now dubbed by a nasal white actor) and his sales soar.

As his co-workers go on strike he is invited into a golden lift to join the “power sellers” flogging slave labour to evil multinationals.

Cassius takes his pay cheque, falls in with Armie Hammer’s insane billionaire and falls out with his artist girlfriend (Tessa Thompson).

Before things go really off the rails in the final act, Riley treats us to a TV show called I Got The S*** Kicked Out Of Me, a surreal art gallery opening and a painful rap performance.

Not all of it works but he keeps digging until he strikes comedy gold.

There are scenes that are funny, clever and deeply unsettling at the same time.

I can’t wait to see what he comes up with for an encore.