Peter Bradshaw 

Malice in Wonderland

This modernised take on the Alice in Wonderland story struggles to justify itself, says Peter Bradshaw
  
  

Malice in Wonderland
No Cheshire cat grins here ... Malice in Wonderland Photograph: PR

A wacky modern twist from screenwriter Jayson Rothwell and director Simon Fellows, on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, set in modern-day ­gangland Britain. Alice (Maggie Grace) is now an American billionaire's ­daughter who is lost in a surreal ­criminal underworld. Danny Dyer is Whitey, a very bizarre white ­rabbit: a London cabbie obsessed with ­punctuality. Dyer has some funny lines, and he makes the most of them, proving that he is ­actually a good performer, all too ­often marooned in endless geezer knees-ups. But otherwise it's a bit pointless and heavy-handed.

 

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