The poster for this film suggests an action-packed adventure so the artists did a great job in setting expectation levels to 11, before disappointing everyone. The story is the usual, single parent trying to achieve salvation through bold and unimaginable actions from the kids. It is usually the dad who's been killed off either by illness or a car crash so it makes a change that it's the mother. That said, I think we would have preferred the father to have met with a misadventure to avoid being subjected to a spectacularly wooden acting performance. It's all fairly awful and bears all the trademarks of a film-school assignment cobbled together one summer. The less said about the plot the better, some of the contrivances leading the kids to the diamonds are quite awfully down to last minute, fag-packet planning. Even the BMX racing scenes are poorly conceived and as for the bad-guy on the race track, a sneer does not work as his only menacing trait.
Adult score: 2/5
Child score: 4/5
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