When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

OK I caught this film halfway through, but.oh.dear.god.it.sounds.like.they're.all.reading.from.scripts.Especially that guy who is now in Teachers and the Book Group, although at least he has proved that he can act if he wants to! (the part where someone has a heart attack stands out as a bastion of bad film making both in terms of acting, scripting and general plausibility) It quite clearly appears to be a cash-in on Human Traffic, but whilst that is not the best film ever, it is at least original and had actors whose delivery did not resemble that of earnest-yet-hopeless GCSE students trying to get a pass grade. Not so much as Human Traffic as a bit of a car crash!

Such a pretentious and lame attempt to hipness. Diabolical script and dialogue and truly embarrassing acting. Really the worse movie I have ever seen(at the cinema). Nothing in my opinion saves this movie from being a total disaster. I saw it when it came out in a cinema in Brighton. People were walking out and there were more people chatting outside the toilets than in the auditorium! At the end there were boos and scorn from the meagre crowd left, which was quite sad as relatives of one of the main actors were present and looked really sheepish. However the movie was that bad that I really could not feel like that sympathetic with them. Everybody has to start from somewhere and their son started off his acting career with this truly awful attempt at 'Tarantinism made in the UK'. 5 years have gone bye, but sometimes I still cringe at the memory of that sad night at the movies! This is a movie with no redeeming features whatsoever! I gave it a 1 as 0 was not available. They should invent a 'shameometer' for everybody involved in this sorry mess of a movie. I know some of them have moved on to better things, the positive thing is that none of them could have sank any lower than this.

A group of night shift workers get to know each other every night when they come together from their various jobs to have some breakfast in a diner before coming home to sleep. Vincent is a supermarket worker who fills his time by seducing women, sleeping with them a few times then breaking up. Lenny is a telephone operator who desires the woman across the room from him but has porno reactions to women face to face. Jody works in a factory but hates her job and feels out of the loop with the men. Sean is a hospital worker who lives with his girlfriend - but she works days and he can't even be sure that she even still lives in the same house as him.I read the awful review on the front page and was wondering if I should bother watching this despite having taped it. I'm glad I ignored the views of that reviewer because this film was quite enjoyable. Yes, the plot is rather laboured towards the end and requires a whole range of coincidences to get where it wants to go, but it is still quite fun. The main reason it works is that it is quite sparky with dialogue that is a sort of polished version of the stuff you talk to your mates about! It will never win writing awards, but it is fun and occasionally quite witty.If you are expecting a very serious drama that engages you and is very intense then you'll be annoyed by just how banal it will seem to you. However I saw it as the equivalent of background music - it isn't very demanding and it is best enjoyed just running in the semi-background where you're not totally concentrating on it but doing enough to hear it and follow it along. It is best at the start where the friends banter and talk rubbish - although they are maybe a bit too sparky for people who work nights all the time!Lance is a good actor (Book Group & Teachers) and he is a fun character here who has lots of good dialogue. Woolfson looks a bit dippy and doesn't have as many good scenes as he has to carry the main narrative. Cilenti is very much a secondary character but is quirky enough to be funny. Ashfield is very cute and has some good lines but she feels like the token female character and doesn't have much to do.Despite it's weak plot and lack of real substance, it is still enjoyably light on it's feet. If you expect a film that will engross you then this film isn't it. If you're doing the ironing or something and want to have the telly on in the background then this is the perfect film - it's got spark and is quite fun to watch, even if you forget it not long after watching it.

I just watched Late Night Shopping, and I have to say that it's one of the most refreshing and enjoyable films that I've watched in a long time. And, working in a video shop, I guess that's saying something. This film shows a situation that could only possibly arise in the late 20th century, with our 24 hour consumer driven world. Not that that's the point of the film, I just thought that it was intresting. Anyway, the film is funny, the script's fairly intelligent, and the acting, while not excellent, is fairly good. I should note that this is the kind of film that you'd almost only ever see made in Britain. There are plenty of nice little touches in the film. The way that the city that they live in is never named, and just appears completely bog-standard, compared to the specific location of the town at the end shows how their life has fallen into such a routine.This film might not go onto the 100 greatest films of all time, but it was certainly enjoyable, and what more can you ask than that?