HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD is another 'nothing' film from director Ben Wheatley, following on from his A FIELD IN ENGLAND. While this isn't quite as bad as that drug-fuelled episode of naval-gazing, it comes close at times. Wheatley assembles a bunch of actors in a country house and has them go off script as they bicker, fight, and the nature of their characters and relationships comes to light.
It's a plotless, aimless production, full of the usual crudity and moronic comments from the characters. Neil Maskell plays virtually the same character as his one in KILL LIST so there's no kind of range from him at all. Elder actors like Charles Dance and Bill Paterson should have known better than to agree to appear. Imagine a noisy soap, full of rowdy, unpleasant characters going about their humdrum lives, and you'll be there.
It's a plotless, aimless production, full of the usual crudity and moronic comments from the characters. Neil Maskell plays virtually the same character as his one in KILL LIST so there's no kind of range from him at all. Elder actors like Charles Dance and Bill Paterson should have known better than to agree to appear. Imagine a noisy soap, full of rowdy, unpleasant characters going about their humdrum lives, and you'll be there.