16 Years of Alcohol

Eventually the movie drowns in words.

It's a carefully made movie, evocatively filmed and intelligently thought out by the director and his cast.

The freely associative, poetic tone signals this isn't going to be just another grungy British pic about young malcontents and petty crime.

The frequent narration is a nonstop string of clichs, platitudes, and truisms that should have been flung out the cutting-room window.