Once you get past the stupid title (is it a musical, is it a travelogue?), which turns out to have nothing to do with the subject or plot, and the fact that this is probably the 5,000th movie about a newly-released jailbird trying against stiff odds to go straight-ish, this is a decent crime story.
Colin Farrell is the ex-con - we never find out exactly why or how long he'd been in prison, but he's a solid hard man, rather than a measly thief - and soon after his welcome back party in a pub full of half the criminal population of London, he's embroiled with Keira Knightly (a movie star always dodging the paparazzi), David Thewlis (her stoner companion) and big, bad Ray Winstone (the local crime boss).
The story's not that taxing, the action not that breakneck, but it's still better made than most of the other 4,999.
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