After a plane ride home from a failed acting job, Miles meets a producer named Leland Carver who slips out his mob identity when the plane is about to crash but wouldn't you know it? The plane is fine.
Now Miles is the only man who knows the past to this mob man. Miles gets the help of make-up artist Duane to turn him into a white man.
As Miles is preparing to get out of town, a hitman walks in. Miles wins the fight and kills the hitman. Now Anthony (Leland Carver's top man) comes in to confirm that Miles is dead.
Miles is now mistaken as the hitman, and now he must assume a parade of identities to get away from the Mob's guns, hot on his trail......
I have a soft spot for this film, even though t's nothing more than a high concept Soul Man in reverse. Lenny Henry was s huge name here in the UL when this was released, imagine Eddie Murphy having a pivotal role in EastEnders, and you kind of get the gist.
It's such a shame the film is so poorly executed, that it scuppered any chance of Lenny making it big in the states. If you're not enamoured by the concept, you may as well not bother, as this film is basically having Lenny as a whiter man, and putting him in different sketches and bookending it as a film.
Lenny is good, there are moments where you can see that he is struggling with the material, and it does really get close to the knuckle with it's humour, but this is the early nineties, where things like this were labelled as funny.
Think of Heart Condition mixed with Soul Man, and you get True Identity.
Now Miles is the only man who knows the past to this mob man. Miles gets the help of make-up artist Duane to turn him into a white man.
As Miles is preparing to get out of town, a hitman walks in. Miles wins the fight and kills the hitman. Now Anthony (Leland Carver's top man) comes in to confirm that Miles is dead.
Miles is now mistaken as the hitman, and now he must assume a parade of identities to get away from the Mob's guns, hot on his trail......
I have a soft spot for this film, even though t's nothing more than a high concept Soul Man in reverse. Lenny Henry was s huge name here in the UL when this was released, imagine Eddie Murphy having a pivotal role in EastEnders, and you kind of get the gist.
It's such a shame the film is so poorly executed, that it scuppered any chance of Lenny making it big in the states. If you're not enamoured by the concept, you may as well not bother, as this film is basically having Lenny as a whiter man, and putting him in different sketches and bookending it as a film.
Lenny is good, there are moments where you can see that he is struggling with the material, and it does really get close to the knuckle with it's humour, but this is the early nineties, where things like this were labelled as funny.
Think of Heart Condition mixed with Soul Man, and you get True Identity.