Red, White and Blue

It displays some talent but it's difficult to see precisely where it is going.

Dim the lights and raise the heat for this sputtering Texas noir, liberally spiced with strip-malls and pool-halls.

Everyone comes out of the story badly, not least the audience. We should have felt shaken and stirred; we merely feel poured over rocks and impaled with cocktail sticks.

A dark and disturbing examination of societal fears that largely succeeds thanks to multiple gripping performances.