WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Wilson (Terence Stamp) is a cockney career criminal in his early sixties, who’s spent half of his life in jail.

After being released from his latest stretch, he heads to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter’s death.

All he has to go on is a letter sent to him by one of her friends.

Armed with only his no-nonsense attitude he sets out to tackle the LA underworld.

WHAT’S IT LIKE?

The plot and characters are believable, down to the way Wilson baffles the Americans with his rhyming slang.

But the film isn’t easy to watch.

The unusual construction makes it hard to follow at times. But you do feel clever when you work out what’s going on.

The Limey is artistically shot and laced with Steven Soderbergh’s trade-mark off-beat directing techniques.

It’s certainly worth a butcher’s.