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Comedy stalwart Henry Goodman plays a celebrity chef caught up in a hostage situation in British comedy Out On A Limb. There are some nice one-liners here but overall the film strains too hard for laughs and is undone by a plot twist that turns it from inoffensive farce to something far darker. It's best digested in front of the box with a TV dinner by fans of My Family and other mainstream sitcom fare.

Felix Limb (Goodman) is having a bad day. A chef who could teach Keith Floyd a thing or two about drinking, he's just been dumped from his own TV show, lost his newspaper column, and his wife and lover are both thinking of leaving him. Just when things couldn't possibly get any worse, they do. His already tense dinner party is interrupted by a pair of inept terrorists, who have stormed the wrong address. Before the intruders can make their escape, however, the police are on the scene and a hostage situation emerges. Over the course of the next three days, gourmand cuisine will be served and tables will be turned...

"THE FILMIC EQUIVALENT OF LENTILS"

Out On A Limb is the filmic equivalent of lentils: bland, hard to dislike, but hard to get excited about either. Goodman is believably obnoxious as the self-centred chef, but the only other performance of note comes from Neil Stuke as incompetent terrorist Simon. The womens' roles are all caricatures, and you know things have really gone tits up when the gratuitous topless scene arrives.