Looking For Eric is a likeable film at most, and it's largely Evets who makes it so – as does John Henshaw (the big bloke from the Post Office ads) as his sidekick, Meatballs.
(At least, this column thinks it was his dad: TVE decided they needed a caption saying "Villa, Valencia player" rather than one explaining who the big bloke in red was).
The potted version was that "if the referees are going to let their big blokes hit my little blokes, then I'll tell the big blokes in my team to hit their little blokes, and we'll have open slather".
He is one of the toughest halves around, tackling the big blokes like he is swatting away flies.
He recalls: "I was in Liverpool and this big bloke, bit of a unit, came up to me and said, 'You think you're hard, don't you Hollywood?' And I said: 'I judge fairy cakes.
"I'm not the biggest of blokes and I've come across plenty of much bigger ones playing against me," said Calderwood, a wiry 27-year-old who will replace the injured Lee Smith on England's left wing, the only change from the team that beat Papua New Guinea last week.
"I'm not the biggest of blokes, and I've come across plenty of much bigger ones playing against me," conceded Calderwood, a wiry 27-year-old who will replace the injured Lee Smith on England's left wing in the only change from the team who beat Papua New Guinea last week.
Samuel West is powerfully intelligent as Jeff (all these big blokes have diminutive names) Skilling, the ex-Harvard star who as CEO set about transforming Enron from a direct provider of electricity and gas into a market-maker in energy derivatives.
"It's hard to concentrate on football when the bank manager phones every day," moaned joint-topscorer Mustapha Riga, as a big bloke in a bomber jacket hammered at the door and the bank really did cut up his credit cards and freeze his assets.
