Cert 15
102 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong language, violence and sex references
So, we are in Portugal for a week and I need to make proverbial hay while the sun is shining and Mrs W is turning into a beetroot.
So, I downloaded Shan Khan's movie from itunes on to my iplayer, stuck up an umbrella and watched it poolside.
And I am now wondering why it wasn't a cinema hit.
Honour has all of the key ingredients of a quality thriller plus a bit more. It is expertly directed and boasts some very decent performances from the likes of Faraz Ayub, Aiysha Hart and Paddy Considine.
At my newspaper, the Derby Telegraph, we consider Considine to be one of our own because he lives nearby and regularly plays in a band in the city.
Sadly, he isn't the most forthcoming when we ask for interviews but, hey, that's up to him.
Here, he plays a former white supremacist who is now employed by Asian families to bump off young women who have diverted from their cultural demands.
Thus, he is called in by the unsmiling mother (Harvey Virdi) of a lass (Hart) who wants to run off with her boyfriend (Nikesh Patel).
Honour aims to highlight the plight of Asian women in the west, where, according to the United Nations, shockingly high numbers are killed over matters of Honour.
In this case, the young westernised woman is completely at odds with her mother and her fundamentalist brother (Ayub).
East meets west has become a genre both in film and on TV but Khan's writing sets Honour apart, offering a few big twists as well as flashbacks to help character development.
He also gives a real flavour of life in a British Asian community and the hostility its members sometimes receive from insiders as well as outsiders.
Laughs: none
Jumps: two
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 8/10