New Town Killers Review

A string of hit records, a successful TV career, two decent movies under his belt, a couple of years married to Mariella Frostrup - he's done well for himself, Richard Jobson. Having made the transition from critic to filmmaker with relative ease (16 Years Of Alcohol is deserving of everybody's time), it seemed we could be in for a string of diverting movies from the renaissance man. Alas, after New Town Killers Jobson will be lucky if Sky Television give him his old job back.

A reinvention of 1932 fantasy-thriller The Most Dangerous Game that owes more to a previous shoddy remake - Ernest Dickerson's Surviving The Game - than the 1930s classic, New Town Killers stars would-be Wolverine Dougray Scott as Alistair, a banker who when he isn't fleecing his clients likes nothing more than chasing local youths around council estates. If the kids elude him, Alex and fellow urban hunter Jamie (Alastair Mackenzie) agree to pay them £12,000. But these bankers are out for blood, and when their latest victim Sean (James Anthony Pearson) seems smarter than the average hobo, well that just makes the game even more exciting.