The Big Finish

This film displays anti social behaviour perfectly

What do you get if you put "Jackass", "Natural Born killers" and "Scream" in a blender and mix in a bit of channel 4's "Adam and Joe Show"?

The Big Finish, that's what!!

A really bizarre yet captivating tale, which starts off following two misfits and their last day of college. In their beaten up old Nissan Micra, and armed with "special" chocolate biscuits a packet of Condoms (and a hammer!), they film with a camcorder an "every day" day for them at college, playing pranks on the people who they meet daily - all of which they have some kind of axe to grind with.

Theres the janitor who "shopped" Tom for no tax disc, the school swot who thinks she's far too good to speak to them, a lecturer who seems to busy romancing a student than teaching class, and not forgetting a group of scallies, who hang around smoking weed, and running amok and making Gaz and Toms life a misery.

Its payback time!! and its all on tape!!

This film works well as it leads you down a nice "safe" path, then all of a sudden its turns faster than a snake, and its bite is just as vicious......

Pretty good and very fresh, although towards the end it seems to lose its way slightly, maybe the twist is too radical for its own good. One things for sure, it won't leave a nice taste in your mouth.

Gary and Tom are dropping out of college after 18 months. On the last day of term they plan a "big finish" - a series of practical jokes against students, faculty and staff - I won't spoilt it for you by saying what they do, but these jokes were fun, if a little cruel at times! Gary and Tom make a home movie of their day, and that's what the viewer sees. Everything goes OK until things get out of hand - and blood is spilled. Despite the blood, this is not a horror movie, but it is credible and well-done and I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed it.

This movie has some very good ideas that show you a movie can be created with basic hand-held camera's (non HD in this case). The movies first 30 Min's have to be some of the funniest Jackass style jokes ever. The comedy timing of our two stars Gary and Tom is spot on. However there jokes spiral way out of control and eventually a feud between Gary and Tom vs the school bullies all ends in tears.....(literally).

The movie is a rare low budget gem, which starts of over the top silly comedy but then turns quite dark and nasty.

Oh and beware the movie does not really have an ending, like the way other hand held camera movies do not have an ending i.e Blair Witch, Cloverfield (infact I think Cloverfield ripped off there ending). In this case I found the effect of suddenly stopping the film far more effective in this case.

By the time the movie had finished in did so in a way that left me feel a little shocked but not full on depressed like the movie Eden Lake.

One of the best lines from the movie is when one of the stars asks there teacher "how many times, does 27 go in to 18?".

Being from the area it was filmed I had to buy it and was quite happy with how good this movie was. Plus features the comedian Kevin Bishop after his Muppet Treasure Island days but about 10 years before his big break TV comedy series The Kevin Bishop Show. In fact during the start of the movie I actually wondered if he was such a knob head as his Kev character version. Oh thats right all the actors play characters with there real first names in either nick name short versions or the full first name.