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I'm going to be brief: Jim Sturgess overacts so much it's embarrassing, my neighbours three dogs bark from the minute they leave to when they get back, Jim is way more irritating than them. It's like amateur dramatics night.

Give this one a wide berth.

This movie is so bizarrely constructed and the editing is so bad, one can easily call it The Snowman of 2018.

While that failed venture was your standard police procedural made into a woeful example of outsider art through bad luck, this film aims for some near incomprehensible labyrinthine parody of every postmodern thriller made since Pulp Fiction or The Usual Suspects.

The closest that can be described to being a serviceable plot is that a slinky sexy woman named Nicola Six (no seriously that's her name) is blorn with the uncanny gift of premonition. And she guesses her murderer upon entering a sleazy London pub and being courted by a series of strange or suspicious characters. In between that, there is a lot of overwrought narration by a bored Billy Bob Thornton; a darts competition; and panoramic shots of what seem to be the Apocalypse.

If it had an inkling of self-awareness, it may be a spectacular example of stealth trolling pretentious film snobs and industry insiders everywhere. But given that this film stars Amber Heard (the poor man's Nicole Kidman) and rejected leading men like Jim Sturgess and Theo James, that seems unlikely.

Amber Heard is a beautiful sexy looking woman. But she does not yet have the screen presence to convey the aura of mystery or raw sensuality that seasoned pros like Sharon Stone or Angelina Jolie or Diane Lane could have done in their sleep. Theo James is slumming in a post-Divergent paycheck role that leaves nothing worth remembering. The worst offender of the main cast is Jim Sturgess as a gross looking barfly with a preposterous cockney accent and rotting teeth. This guy's performance is so ridiculously over the top that Nicolas Cage would be chastising Sturgess to tone it down.

The sole bright spot among the main cast is surprisingly enough the most controversial, Johnny Depp. No, seriously, Johnny Depp is in this movie and he's actually pretty good. It also helps that Amber Heard gets naked alot in this so at least there's that.

But unless you fancy yourself as one of those pretentious hipster schlock enthusiasts (such as myself ;).) I cannot recommend viewers to seriously consider watching this.

Unsure why Johnny Depp would take an uncredited role in the atrocity, he is a mega star. This film is awful. I almost didn't finish it but I always follow through, no matter how bad a movie is. Waste of time!

Bad story , I'm surprise to see 2 great actors in such a bad movie ! The girl may be pretty but damn she is a horrible actress !

1 star for Johnny Depp cameos, 1 star for Theo James. At least he can actually act, and is nice to look at. The other performances were dog poo. BBT is so overrated, Jim Sturgess absolutely awful, and Amber Heard... painful to watch. Wow just wow. It was so so so bad. Story was all over the place. Plot was stupid and predictable. Why was the yellow-toothed, over-the-top Jim Sturgess character such a big part of the focus? We're we supposed to believe he was the killer, because that was so obvious. Why all the dart-playing?? What was the significance? I laughed out loud only once when Theo James' rabid son tried attacking someone. Besides the 2 pluses above, there were ZERO redeeming qualities to this movie.

If you spend a lot of time with movies -- guilty as charged, M'am -- then you will notice that, once a blue moon, you come across a certain rare kind of film. A film that should never have been made. A film that should never have been greenlighted. Or funded. Or distributed. Or seen. Not because it is so bad. Lots of bad films out there. Tens of thousands. But because it is such a waste. Of talent. Of resources. Of theatre space. London Fields is a perfect example. The concept -- a heroine who can forsee her own death, and an amoral writer more than willing to exploit that -- might have worked in more capable hands. But here the audience is the victim, not the fictional character. The creators even managed to take one of the most likable actors in Hollywood, Billy Bob, and make him cringe-worthy. Extraordinary achievement. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))