It happens in all relationships that, after a while, things can get a little stale. There a few things you can attempt to do in order to address this: you could possibly go away on a relaxing break, or participate in fun activities together such as pottery or baking, or spice things up in the bedroom, with role play.

It is of course the latter in that particular list that this film uses as its nucleus, that soon develops into something that probably should really be considered the last resort on the list above – murder.

It’s reached a point in their married lives where Emma (Kaley Cuoco) and Dave (David Oyelowo) have very little time to be intimate, what with bringing up two kids, and with Emma away with work constantly.

They decide to try something different, a little role playing, but not at home; they decide to meet up at a hotel in town, pretending to be strangers, and see where the night takes them.

Unfortunately for Dave, he runs into traffic on the way there, which means that Emma gets approached by an elder gentleman (Bill Nighy), who proves to be a proper gooseberry, and cause the night not to go as planned.

Trying to bring something fun and new to an audience isn’t too dissimilar to the concept of role play itself. Sadly French director Thomas Vincent chooses to play a director with a lacklustre story that’s about as exciting as gonorrhoea.

It starts off well enough, appropriately playful with a good connection between Cuoco and Oyelowo. This continues with the arrival of Nighy’s character, who is expectedly charming. And then, for some unknown reason, the film takes itself a little too seriously, and pivots away from where it was having some success, into rather generic waters.

It’s as if the film itself was taking on one too many roles, and not terribly confident on which one was best, with the result being a truly disappointing date night, where we can safely say it wasn’t us, it was you.