This is really silly. Thanks to a structure entirely reliant on a series of twists – none of them terribly ingenious – it’s tricky to detail quite how silly without letting slip spoilers.
Suffice to say, Jeremy Paul’s creaky thriller begins with an attractive young woman being accosted by a creepy man in a London park. There’s been a recent murder nearby, the man says; she’d better watch out.
The woman is portrayed by Sarah Manners, best known from TV’s ‘The Bill’ – which is in itself a significant early clue as to the turn that the action is going to take. From there, it follows a pattern of sub-Pirandellian role-playing, in which sexual power shifts back and forth between the two characters and their various aliases.
Director Roger Martin, Manners and Jon Shaw as her opposite number keep the pace zipping along, but there’s little more than blatant contrivance at the centre of this woefully thin and unoriginal stuff.