Lie Low

Lie Low is about vengeance, honor, truth, and family.

It's a hard look at the cycle of vengeance and how difficult it is to shake. This film is beautifully filmed--utilizing a shallow depth-of-field-but-still-wide-angled aesthetic that provides the viewer with enough perspective to get a sense of the space while also highlighting how narrowly focused or willfully blind the characters are.

The performances in Lie Low were all uniquely strong, whole, and complex. The actors brought heart to an otherwise hypnotically bleak landscape.

If I have one criticism, it's that the film is a disturbing downer with very few glimpses of light and humor, which makes it difficult to sustain (as a viewer) for its 98 minute runtime.

That being said, the subject matter requires darkness, and by and large, it should disturb you. Make no bones about it--that's what Lie Low aims to do and it does so quite successfully. It's not for everyone, but for those who enjoy bleak thrillers that provoke thought, this is a "can't miss."

I agree with all the opinions expressed here about the quality of this film and how it's such a good story done on such a low budget. However, there is one glaring fault that made the film borderline unwatchable for me: the enunciation of the actors. I'm not English, and the regional accents are SO strong that many many lines, even after a lot of rewinds and rellstening, are completely unintelligible. I have no idea what many of the characters were saying, and I'm a native speaker of English. God help those who've learned English as a second language! I find this problem more and more with modern films for some reason, either the accents are so strong or the mumbling and poor enunciation is so bad that the lines might as well be in Chinese. I took a few courses in phonetics, linguistics, etc. as an undergrad many years ago, so I could go into glottal stops, fricatives, etc. etc. but it would be useless detail, the bottom line being that the speech is not intelligible by a large percentage of the English-speaking population, and that's such a shame for a film of this quality otherwise, especially since it advertises itself as being in the English language. I'm not agaiinst any accents at all which would identify the characters as being from a particular locality, but this is ridiculous. I find this problem not only in film but in our society as a whole. I sometimes get wrong numbers on my voicemail, messages left by someone working for a corporation who want who knows because the speech is so fast and poorly enunciated, and this is a business call! The culprits are always young people, so I see this as a growing problem with youth. They're not learning how to speak properly nor the importance of WHY it's important to do so! I don't think I'm the only old geezer who notices this.

I saw a lot of 10 *s and 9 *s and though "ok, someone giving fake reviews to boost the ratings. Boy was I wrong. I will remember this movie for a long, long time. Jamie Noel (writer, director...) may never top this imaginative way of showing us that anyone can screw up and we are all the same... everything's connected. Excellent movie!

Lie Low is an incredible, tension-filled, gripping drama. It's set in England and follows a young man on the run after he witnesses a stabbing. It was so refreshing to experience a film like this. We so rarely see indies from overseas and I'm so glad I found Lie Low. It's shot beautifully and also has a fantastic score. Performances were top notch. It's impressive all around. Highly recommend!

This film was terrific in every which way. It had a lot of tension coupled with truthful, honest acting. The acting was on point. All the actors did such a wonderful job. I thought the pacing of the film was good and I enjoyed the story. It kept me engaged from beginning to end. Strongly recommended.