15/03/13 The Hot Potato (2011)

Sort of crime film set in 1969 involving some fairly clueless folk trying to sell some uranium to some shady types.

Ray Winstone (surprisingly not the potato of the title) plays Mickey Lockup, a cockney fellow whose young mate, Eddy Pieandmash somehow manages to find a box containing the carelessly misplaced nuclear material. Through a convoluted turn of events, they find themselves, along with Winstone's unexpectedly good looking real life daughter and a German cliché (prob called Hans Hitlerwurst), bouncing all over Europe trying to flog the uranium to an increasingly daft series of characters.

The second half of the film, with lots of double crosses and people not being who they claim, gets a bit too knotted in its own story and left us a little bored by the end. Having said that, the acting's good, some of the lines are funny and the period detail is impressive. Apple'n pears, daahn the market, Chas and Dave etc.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1641252/
5/10

Not a potato.

Perkin.