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3 and Outforthecount

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

btcrook120.jpgOnce again I have been astonished, this time to find that Mackenzie Crook’s tube driver movie 3 and Out got bad reviews and bad audiences, despite the best efforts of the London Underground staff.

How did this happen?  Is it really that bad?

No.  Certainly no worse than Run, Fat Boy Run - but of course Simon Pegg is a doyenne of the reviewers, whereas Crook isn’t.

In fact it succeeds where so many other films fail, by both having a genuine comic premise and being suitably real and sensitive whenever needed.

It’s not Withnail & I - yet I suspect it will be a popular draw in 20 years time when it is re-released on digital video liquid or something.

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Tube Drivers Whinge

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

3 and Out is the new comedy movie starring Mackenzie Crook (Gareth from The Office) about a man trying to get paid off from his job as a London tube driver by killing a third suicider in as many weeks.

Typically for “Whinge Britain” - the land in which everyone has to have something to complain about - tube drivers have taken exception to this. You can feel the tears welling up, can’t you?

So Crook and his costars have got together to defend the movie, and rightly so.

Drivers’ union Aslef has criticised the film for its “insulting” storyline.

Crook, who said he was “very proud” of the British-made movie, said he was “disappointed” people had been “jumping to conclusions”.

“They’re imagining we’ve made a very distasteful, bad-taste film, which we haven’t,” he said while promoting Three and Out in central London.

The movie also features Colm Meaney (ex of Star Trek, Far and Away) who said that the film was more about relationships than suicide.

“It’s about two guys who meet in the most bizarre circumstances, become friends and learn to care about each other.”

“I don’t think anyone involved in the film would argue that suicide is a laughing matter,” he told BBC News.

“But this film is not about suicide, and I think anyone who sees the film will see that clearly.”

London Underground allowed filming of the movie at stations, which also carry promotional posters for the film that is released on 25 April, and is directed by Jonathan Gershfield.

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