Fatman: the Mel Gibson Santa action comedy we really don’t need right now

The disgraced actor tries again to rehabilitate himself in a dark Christmas comedy with an intriguing set-up that fails to follow throughQuite often you’ll see a trailer that doesn’t do justice to the film it’s advertising.

Maybe it’s tonally wrong, or it gives too much away, or the music is off.

There are hundreds of potential failings, and it happens a lot.

Much more rare, though, is a film that doesn’t do justice to its trailer.

Fatman is one of those films.Related: Mel Gibson denies Winona Ryder’s allegation of bigoted comments

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