Shallow Grave

Danny Boyle‘s debut is a darkly comic but cautionary thriller inspired by the Pardoner’s talefrom Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales, explaining how money is the root of all evil.  The three friends corrupted by the lure of money in this case are Edinburgh flatmates Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox and Christopher Ecclestone.  Quite apart from turning one against the other, the more immediate danger is the vicious thugs whose money landed by chance in their laps.  Entertaining throughout, right the way throughout to its inevitably gory conclusion.  7/10