Four suicidal people meet on the roof of a skyscraper and make a pact. Starring Pierce Brosnan and Aaron Paul.

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On New Year’s Eve, four people meet by chance on the roof of a London skyscraper. All have made the same resolution: they want to jump off. Taken by surprise by the unexpected company, none of them commits suicide. Instead, they spend the night together up there and make a pact in the morning: they have to stay alive until Valentine’s Day. Now they have six weeks to keep each other alive.

It’s not the actors’ fault that A Long Way Down is a pretty meager movie. They each give their roles more life and nuance than supplied by Jack Thorne’s screenplay, which is the main problem. Director Pascal Chaumeil’s unimaginative directing doesn’t help either and ends up consisting of an array of travel shots. The original novel’s four distinct voices is turned into four movie chapters – one for each character. But A Long Way Down sticks to this structure only inconsistently, rendering any artful touch ineffective and most of the characters mainly superficial.