Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on July 2012

It’s Brit Sex and the City meets the Spice Girls via Charley’s Angels in this frothy, pretentious exercise in style over substance from formerly promising director Noel Clarke. The film tracks, interminably and in faux Rashomon style, four vastly different young London girlfriends—a weepy career victim, a leggy blonde pianist, a kick-ass lesbian and an American grocery clerk—through a few days in each of their lives as they inadvertently become involved in a jewel heist. Ho hum. It may have worked better if there were even a trace of plausibility for their being best friends in the first place.