Bad Day at the Office review – gratuitously entertaining Go-Pro thriller is like Crank meets The Hangover

*Bad Day at the Office* is a fast-paced action thriller starring John Hannah as an amnesiac who wakes in a hotel room with a dead body and is soon pursued through London’s criminal underworld. Shot largely from first-person GoPro perspectives, the film uses elaborate action and visual gimmicks to make its hero’s parkour escapes feel plausible.

The review finds the film entertainingly inventive but exhausting, with its frantic pace and novelty eventually giving way to a conventional gangland revenge plot. Hannah’s character must keep his heart rate down by taking pills, while the action includes a killer-clown DJ and improvised weapons; at 111 minutes, the film feels much longer. It opens in UK and Irish cinemas on 30 October.