Synopsis
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub.
2007 Directed by Brendan Foley
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub.
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An astoundingly dreadful film which, had it been half an hour shorter, relieved of its more cumbersome and less audible conversations, might have been a grand champion of that rare so-bad-it’s-good species. As it was, the snorts of hilarity did not come quite frequently enough for its immensely stolid hour and fifty-six not to bring howls of tedium upon one, but many of these snorts there yet were, and twice I was caused to laugh very hard indeed by instances of directorial ineptitude which were truly exceptional.
There was nothing strictly ‘good’ about The Riddle (Mel Smith, of all people, was the only member of the cast to return in credit, his Dickens expert actually giving off hunger, censure and…
Wrapped in all the production values of a really bad, low-budget TV pilot, “The Riddle” is a ‘thriller’ devoid of thrills, suspense, or anything else promised in the ad copy. Vinnie Jones, in his most unbelievable role ever, is a reporter looking into suspicious accidents at a construction site, while at the same time trying to locate an unpublished draft by Charles Dickens that people may be willing to kill for. The dialogue is AWFUL. Let me repeat that for emphasis: AWFUL. And you have to turn the subtitles on to understand what is being said. The plot? Mind-numbing. It has an incidental soundtrack that sounds like it was cribbed from late 80’s/early 90’s action comedies (best part - a…