Body at Brighton Rock

Depicting the first serious incident on the job of a fresh(wo)man Park Ranger.

It's a useful movie particularly for the urbanites, who would go to a National Park once and then say, "I want to become a park ranger, it's so easy and awesome".

All in all a good movie of a person confronted with their fears, in a realistic way, with some comedic moments, a type of a movie which is sorely lacking these days with overwrought overly serious "paranormal" horror or "crazed killer"-dominated genre.

A welcome breath of fresh forest air.

If you're going to have a movie with one character off by themselves for the majority of the run-time then there must be a lot of interesting things happening for the character to deal with, or the character must be particularly interesting. And it doesn't hurt if the actor is charismatic. This movie avoids all three of those options as if they were the plague. They make it clear (in fact it's necessary) that the main character is incompetent and stupid and all her actions will be thoughtless at best, and reckless at worst. But she's not interesting or involving or appealing to make time spent with her tolerable. And actually very little happens until the obvious dream sequences (not very inventive or gripping) and all of it is downright boring. It's a wasted hour and a half in the company of an irritating half-wit. If that's your idea of a good time, watch this film.

Better than expected. I went in not expecting much, and there were parts of the film which were slow paced. Overall I liked it though.

But I really did like the twist at the end. The concept was great too, but overall there probably could have been more to it.

Really wanted to like 'Body at Brighton Rock' much more. Absolutely loved the concept, yes as one can tell good concept for films and television really do draw me in and it makes it hard to not expect a lot. The poster/cover for the film was quite appetising as well, those two things are two frequent reasons for wanting to watch something. Them and talented casts, when there is one or more actor/actress that more often than not leave a big impression on me in a good way.

After seeing 'Body at Brighton Rock' when it appeared as a recommendation (having seen a fair of low budget horrors and thrillers lately for completest sake), count me as another person who was very unimpressed by it. Was really hoping that it would be one of the few exceptions of films etc seen recently that actually lived up to their potential and exceeded them, but once again good potential is wasted and it is hard to not feel frustrated.

'Body at Brighton Rock' is not without marginal redeeming value. The scenery is both beautiful and atmospheric.

That cannot be said for the rest of the production values though, which had a constant rushed and chaotic look. The same can be said for the direction visually and dramatically it is not much better, pretty sluggish. The music does not add to the atmosphere at all, actually think it could have been used much less and been much more subtle because this was over-bearing stuff that didn't fit.

What there is of the dialogue is nothing to write home about, sounding like it was written in haste with no checking to see whether it flowed or made sense and that it was written with no heart. The story feels like one for a short film stretched to feature length, which severely hurt the momentum and made the film feel uneventful and padded. Tension is zero, sense is zero and surprises are zero.

Far too much familiar ground here executed very blandly. Wasn't interested or engaged by any of the characters, all of whom were sketchy and with a lot of illogical behaviour going on. The acting is not much better before, with a good deal of over-compensating.

Concluding, have seen worse but this didn't work at all. 2/10

Ok, as someone that watches every horror and suspense movie that comes out, this was way better than some of the big budget garbage I've seen recently It kind of reminded me of the 80s slasher flicks set in the woods- and I absolutely love them. It's definitely worth watching and screaming at the screen when the lead does something incredibly dumb (which you know she will)