The cast is tops. And the top actor is Stephen Fry an art professor then collection curator. Douglas Henshall buys a painting for his partner. Then five years pass, and he and she are not together. She, Lenore Crichlow, is engaged to the man purchasing the Fry collection. The painting Henshaw bought for her she sold, and it is in the collection. He offers to buy it, but is refused. He, Fry, and Kenneth Collard decide to take seven paintings and replace them with forgeries. The criminal doing the theft gives the Hate character a phony painting. In the third five years we find out what happened.
I think breaking the timeline into five year segments doesn't work. It worked in the book by Rankin, but here it slows the pace too much. The soundtrack is the most annoying music I have ever heard.
Still, it is a good film for the top acting.
