Irish film The Tiger’s Tail dreadful

The Tiger’s Tail

Director: John Boorman

Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Sinead Cusack, Kim Cattrall, Sean McGinley

Cert: 15

Until now you would never have believed John Boorman could make a bad film … not just a bad one but an absolutely dreadful one.

This Irish film, even though it has a decent enough basic idea (the take-over of one man’s life by a look-alike), is neither black nor comic, as it claims. It’s just bad.

Gleeson plays a Dublin property developer who one day spots his double. He tracks him down and allows him to hijack his home and his life.

Nice idea, terrible execution. And Dublin doesn’t come out of the mess on the credit side, either, since it seems a city populated by stereotypes.

Star Rating: 1/5