The Watch
Directed by Akiva Schaffer. Starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt 15A cert, gen release, 102 min
THIS IS, you may remember, the film that, following the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, was forced to drop the word “neighbourhood” from the front end of its title. On balance, we don’t like to see films being suppressed in such circumstances. It would not, however, have been the end of the world if The Watch had been flushed down the nearest sewer. There’s nothing particularly offensive about the piece. But its intergalactic badness does take the breath away.