This movie has such a long-winded introduction to the characters that it makes the start appear slow (although the opening with the boxes is refreshing). With some effort, I can get over Daniel Craig's accent. It's entertainment, after all, but it would be easier to accept if this was sending itself up. It appears not to be. It is a fanciful jaunt through the staples of the genre, but it fails to grip. The writing is as laboured as the pace, despite hurried explosions of dialogue from Norton (whose eyes reveal he's not doing this for the art).

On three occasions I have watched this movie and made it to the first death. Do not watch this movie in a comfortable chair with a glass of Cotes du Rhone.

This is less of a whodunit than a whydunit. The movie could have done with comic actors to lift some of the lighter scenarios as the laughs were not lost in the performance, but in the timing. Kate Hudson tried, but was let down by the material.