That the duo's robbery spree is such a gentle affair is the source of many of the movie's gags - their getaway car is a Volvo with a caravan on the back - but the geriatric pace means that the laughs are on the gentle side, too.

The humour is exceedingly gentle and the plot increasingly improbable. But John Miller directs steadily and the performances are irresistibly knowing.

There are the seeds of something interesting here, but premise and talent are ill-served by crude and cliched characterisation and thudding execution ...