Farming

Been looking forward to this film for an age. The directorial debut of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the man who first came to our notice in HBO's magnificent prison drama Oz. His character Simon Adebisi was a force of nature. A one man army who'd pin you to your chair. Over the years he's been in numerous other tv shows and film, slowly building notice for himself until finally he's got his shot at making his own movie. Farming. The story of his life. The story of how he, as a young Nigerian child, was shipped off to England by his parents to live with a white family so he could have a shot at a better life. While there he faced awful racism and bigotry and it affected him so much he actually joined one of the racist skinhead gangs in his home town. A black man, joining a gang like that. This had the potential to be a scalding and incendiary look at self hate and cultural identity. But for one thing.

Sadly Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje hired Kate Beckinsdale to play the part of his foster mother and she's so blazingly awful I had to turn off the film after 30 minutes. There's bad and there's Bad but jesus christ she is just BAD. I'd be more believable as a working class mother than she is.

Bollix anyway.