It's easy to criticise Triggermen, what with its sporadically dodgy dialogue, casting decisions and plotting. What's surprising is how it almost manages to get away with it, just like its useless-but-charming central character, Pete.
While on paper Neil Morrissey's Men Behaving Badly alter ego might have prepared him for the role, his TV-standard acting sits uneasily with the film's veneer of professionalism.
The confident visual style, energetic pace and farcical humour help move things along until a fearsomely miscast Amanda Plummer enters the scene as a nagging Irish woman. Dunbar, as her errant boyfriend, can at least deliver an authentic accent, but fails to achieve screen chemistry with Morrissey - a crucial flaw in what's essentially a buddy pic.
Wahlberg and Rapaport fare better as the hard-nosed American criminal duo, although Rapaport's anti-English rants feel inevitably stereotypical this side of the Atlantic.