This is all done with the smoothness you expect from a director like Boyle, who decides early on that while he and screenwriter Hodge may be able to give us anything
exemplary from a
narrative perspective, he'll certainly
work hard with Anthony Dod Mantle to ensure that visually the film will retain interest.
The action set pieces are great, but there's too few of them; the voice acting is
exemplary, but the
narrative doesn't do it justice; the touch and motion controls
work well for some actions, but they ruin others.