Comes a Bright Day – review

First-timer Simon Aboud is a successful commercials director and his movie looks good, but also, for me, cliched and the tiniest bit smug. Craig Roberts (from the hit comedy Submarine ) is Sam, an ambitious young man employed as a dogsbody in a top London hotel. One day he is told to take a guest's expensive watch to be altered at a Bond Street jeweller run by the enigmatic Charlie (Timothy Spall); Sam falls for the beautiful assistant Mary (Imogen Poots). But the shop is attacked by armed robbers. Is this Sam's moment of destiny? Roberts turns in an interesting performance, but the film is treacly and contrived.