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The Painkiller " review by Helen Meany

Lyric, BelfastThe star voltage of Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon is the essential ingredient in Sean Foley's new adaptation of a French farce by Francis Veber. Best known as the author of Le Diner de Cons, Veber specialises in creating double acts, and here two very different men in adjoining hotel bedrooms become unlikely buddies. Brydon is the "one-man natural disaster zone" Dudley, a failed photographer from Swind…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AM on October 2, 2011

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