Well-produced, with a nice visual sense, lurid cinematography and a surging score by Anne Dudley, the film starts out well. Rhys carries the central role with energy and attitude, nicely flipping from on-screen charmer to off-screen monster (Chris Evans could probably sue). And the supporting cast is fairly good fun, with the possible exception of Hurt's irritatingly gravel-voiced thug. But the filmmakers never make anything of it--they refuse to comment significantly on the barrage of humiliation TV and only barely tap into the empty glamour of the media culture. Instead, they try to create a thriller with a sense of impending nastiness and a series of increasingly boneheaded scenes that ring completely false (anybody, even Darren, would just call the police after the first event). As it progresses the filmmakers get far too clever, deliberately withholding key elements and dropping tantalising hints everywhere, as if we still cared. And the climactic sequence is as excruciating as the similar scene in Citizen Verdict--false malevolence and an improbable crisis of conscience that's both overwritten and heavy-handed. It ends up feeling corny and ridiculous. Ah well.