Freeze Frame is full of atmosphere

Cast: Lee Evans, Rachael Stirling, Colin Salmon, Ian McNeice

Cert: 18.

Every clown wants to play Hamlet, so it goes. Some of them, when given the chance, make a surprisingly fine job of it.

The rubber-faced comedian Evans isn't as bad as you might expect in this clever directing debut by Simpson (he also wrote the screenplay). He isn't afraid to look for different ways in which to shoot his film and keeps the story honest and full of atmosphere.

Evans, who performed well in Funny Bones, plays an obsessive acquitted murder suspect who keeps a highly-detailed account of his every waking moment. When the forensics profiler who worked on the case (McNeice) writes a book on unsolved crimes TV crime reporter Stirling and a detective take up the old crime.

It's a film strong on paranoia in which Evans, a cornered and nervous suspect, is really quite excellent.

Star Rating: 3/5