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Masculinity in Crisis, part 364. Writer-director Dan Reed serves up a debut feature that stews together a male sex fantasy with tabloid ultra-violence and hopes that we'll all go, oooh. Danny Dyer plays a likely lad who hits the jackpot when an alluring older woman (Gillian Anderson, pictured above) invites him home, rogers him senseless and then offers him a lift. But the evening takes a hideous wrong turn when they're involved in a road accident and brutally attacked by three men. The remainder of the movie entrains a tawdry and sensationalist plot to exact revenge, the low point being a scene in which a man has a shotgun thrust repeatedly up his backside. I think this is meant to symbolise the dehumanising effects of the eye-for-an-eye philosophy, though it may also suggest that its writer is suffering from a borderline personality disorder.