Phelim O'Neill 

Freight – review

A British thriller about human trafficking that resorts to cliche all the way, says Phelim O'Neill
  
  

Freight
Weighed down ... Freight Photograph: PR

A barely serviceable human trafficking thriller that gets less thrilling and more ludicrous as it progresses. Julie (Laura Aikman), the daughter of portable toilet entrepreneur Gabe (Billy Murray) gets kidnapped by Romanian gangsters. (Or maybe they're Russian, the film doesn't care enough to make it clear.) Shoehorned together are cage fighting, lap dancing and illegal labour, all plot elements torn from the headlines then hastily stuck together to make what passes for a script. Gabe's business means we get lines like "I will burn every toilet you have!"; presumably they are supposed to be taken seriously, but it's impossible. Some of the stunts and fights aren't too bad, but almost everything else is.

 

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