In Noel Clarke and Mark Davis’s swingeingly Tarantino-esque film, four girls, all beautiful, sparky and dressed à la mode, get caught up in the aftermath of a diamond heist after a low-level street gang have been commissioned to conceal the diamonds. We follow each of their stories, which in the end bind together after a veritable splurge of fast cutting, close camerawork and chronological tricks.
Shannon (Ophelia Lovibond) cuts herself as she struggles to deal with a dysfunctional family. Cassandra (Tamsin Egerton) is a blonde piano prodigy with suffocating parents. Kerrys (Shanika Warren-Markland) is a black lesbian who lays more women than most men but also has father trouble.
Jo (Emma Roberts) does nightshifts at a supermarket and dreams of better things.
To say that these girls are fantasy cut-outs would not be an exaggeration, and the sex and violence that ensues make for a film that you can’t for a moment believe. And like most of those movies that purport to tell it like it is for the fashionably chic young, the result is as cheesy and sentimental as it pretends to be streetwise.
4.3.2.1
Cert: 15
