Actor Sacha Bennett’s debut film as director is a ponderous British bank-blag drama, told in flashbacks and from multiple perspectives, and nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is.

We are in the Eighties, and a gang of villains led by Life on Mars stars John Simm and Philip Glenister are running rings around two hapless detectives (Kevin McNally and Dylan Brown) called — ho ho — Tom and Jerry. Until, that is, their last big score goes complicatedly wrong.

The characterisation is straight out of The Sweeney, but Bennett nods towards classic crime capers of the Sixties by factoring in a mysterious emerald as big as a fist. He also attempts to work in some pseudo-feminist social comment via two female bank clerks who happen to be gorgeous, and would otherwise be mere set-dressing.

So Tue£day is overloaded, but the biggest problem is the flatness of the telling. The repetition of scenes becomes boring, the photography is lacklustre and televisual, and there’s little of the sense of place and era that enlivened another otherwise humdrum recent heist drama, The Bank Job. Bennett’s movie is too undemanding to be offensive, though, and those who loved Glenister in Life on Mars will be pleased. He gives exactly the same performance here.