Cert 15
102 mins
BBFC advice: 102 mins
Are cinema audiences starting to turn their backs on lads' films which depict women as little more than sex objects?
I wondered this as I sat on my own in an auditorium for the second consecutive evening.
The common factor between Brick Mansions and Plastic was the concentration of the camera on the cleavages of its female characters.
In Brick Mansions, Ayisha Issa is constantly seen in stockings and suspenders and has a fascination with the breasts of the short-skirted Catalina Denis.
Meanwhile, in Julian Gilbey's Plastic, the audience is tantalised by various angles of Emma Rigby's barely covered top half and the only other women in the movie appear happy to sell themselves for cash.
This is a lads' world, make no mistake about it.
Some critics have doubted the film-makers' claim that Plastic is based on a true story so I should be fair to Gilbey and confirm that a minute's trawl of the internet will find the 1999 case of Khawar Zaman.
Plastic is not an exact mirror image of real life but there are clear parallels.
To say more would be to give the game away but the premise is that Ed Speelers leads a quartet of students who scam rich people's credit cards.
Their problem comes when one of their victims is a ruthless criminal (Thomas Kretschmann) who demands that they pay him back with massive interest.
Thus, they have to come up with a scheme to beat all schemes.
Speelers is the brains of the outfit and Will Poulter is his loyal sidekick. But the team's unity is threatened by a wild card (Alfie Allen) and his dozy mate (Sebastian De Souza).
Anyway, there are drugs, comic chases and lots of young women wearing very little.
The dialogue is cliched and none of the performances are memorable.
It really isn't worth an hour and a half of anyone's time.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: yes
Nudity: yes
Overall rating: 5.5/10