Gunrush (2009)

Best Avoided

UK

Television Film

Director: Richard Clark

Writer: Richard Cottan

Cinematographer: Balazs Bolygo

Cast: Timothy Spall, Jacob Anderson, Aml Ameen, Frances Ashman, Adam Deacon, Deborah Findlay, Carrie Mullan, Nicholas Beveney, David Harewood, Paul Kaye

Channelling the same sort of conservative, middle-class paranoia that made Reefer Madness (1936) and 8mm (1999) such laughably terrible films, this ITV drama - starring Timothy Spall as the father of a teenage girl senselessly gunned down in a small supermarket, who becomes determined to track down the gun responsible - is a work completely lacking in credibility, deficient in logic, and seemingly ignorant of human nature (and the less said about Paul Kaye’s turn the better.) Iain.Stott