first and foremost, I'm an American. i live in the united states. yet for some reason I've become slightly obsessed with British culture, movies, literature, music and whatnot. my favorite film would have to be trainspotting, and lock stock blew me away. unfortunately, 24 in London did not. in fact, it had a reverse affect, inducing sleep. horrid horrid horrid everything, from the ridiculous dialouge to the plot that had more holes in it than a mesh t-shirt. there was virtually no plot, and literally no main character. i felt cheated by the end of the movie, cheated by the fact that I've lost a precious two hours of my life i could have spent reading a good book. rubbish, please don't fall victim to this movie, and anyone telling you otherwise needs to seriously reconsider what they are thinking.

When I was staying on holiday in Wales this year, I had the misfortune of being stuck in a house with a VCR player and a video of the cheapo movie 24 Hours In London.After watching the first ten minutes or so, the acting seemed okay, the plot seemed to have potential, and the cutting on the titles section was first rate.Then the film plummeted like a goose with no wings. Without giving too much away (The film does enough of that itself with heavily signposted plot elements), 24 Hours In London swings unsteadily between what appears to be an attempt at a cockney gangster flick and outright slapstick comedy.The latter half of the film is particularly bizarre, with plot holes so large that the entire film seems to be progressing at random.So why did I bother watching it to the end? Well, I keep asking myself that. Is it because, despite all the shockingly-bad acting, there were a few actors who could actually convey emotion? Is it because the lumbering comedy moments were actually pretty funny, in an oafish way? Or is it that maybe, despite all its glaring errors and hilariously wooden acting, the film's shoestring charm manages to shine through? I honestly couldn't say.

A well written script and a surprisingly well produced film when you consider the money (or lack of) that went into 24 hours in London, it set the mould for the drivel that then followed it (lock stock, etc). Not having come out at the right time might have harmed the audience's acceptance of this film, but it stands none the less a pleasurable and at times very funny film. Steering away from the usual clichés and injecting humour where American toss would usually reside, makes this movie well worth a look. a promising start for first time director and writer Alex Finbow, and a welcomed break from the mind numbing boredom of blockbuster and art house cinema.

This movie was terrible. I thought it would be good, but it was not. I do not know what other British-made movies were like, but this sucked. A young woman has witnessed a major gang-deal gone bad, and now Christian (the mob leader) and his gang are trying to have her killed within 24 hours. Two mobsters break into the futuristic police station, and without being hit by a single bullet until the end, they gun down over a dozen heavily-armed SWAT team members. This is even more unbelievable than a video game with cheat codes. There are dumb cops guarding the young woman for the rest of the film, and every time mobsters try to kill her, something goes wrong and the mobsters end up dead. This takes place in the future, so maybe the film's producers will use its futuristic-location as an excuse to why the film was not only extremely fake to the point where it was no longer entertaining, but horrible. Feel free to email me with any questions or comments.