London Film Festival Day 2: Moonlight, A Monster Calls, Christine & More

Director Attila Till makes a surprisingly affecting tale out of a potentially ludicrous premise, as two disabled young men team up with a wheelchair-bound assassin to help carry out his assignments.

Cleverly melding dark humour with bursts of brutal violence and an authentic depiction of the disabled experience, Kills on Wheels refuses to be flippant about its central premise despite the probable temptation to go completely off-the-rails with it.

The main reason for the film's success is the central trio of performances, cementing the inherent sadness of their predicament but also conveying the will to live, love and persevere in the face of sometimes tremendous adversity. Till keeps his direction tight and has penned a screenplay that avoids both trite sentiment and exploitation.

Rating: Though it has occasional hiccups of incoherence, this is largely an affectionate, unexpectedly emotive character piece that makes more of its central conceit than mere gimmickry. Given how few films there are that take the disabled on their own terms, this is an enormous breath of fresh air. 7/10