Looking for thrills? You’ll be LUCKY

‘By the time we learn what went wrong I no longer cared nor properly understood’

‘Did you just say ‘‘cauliflower’’ to me?’ asks Clyde, in a sing-song accent that, like so much on show here, is distinctly over-the-top. ‘The last time you said that word for me I was sent down for six months.’

But ‘cauliflower’ it is. The boys are going to rob the speedway track on its busiest day of the year but first they need the best vault-blower in the South. That’ll be the aptly named Joe Bang (Craig) but a) he’s still in jail and b) if they can bust him out, he’s going to insist they recruit his dim-witted brothers, played by Jack Quaid and Dublin actor Brian Gleeson.

The gang may finally be all here but the film, with its obvious echoes of the Coen brothers’

O, Brother Where Art Thou?, disappointingly is not. It’s not clever enough, funny enough or quick enough – the pace slowed by laboured comic cameos from the likes of a particularly tiresome Seth MacFarlane as an arrogant British racing driver and Hilary Swank as an FBI detective.

Things get progressively less interesting as the robbery appears to go wrong and by the time we learn what actually happened, I no longer cared nor properly understood.

Not so much a slow burner as a damp squib.