No Reasons

You can feel a great film bubbling under the surface here. It's incredibly dark and drip feeds the narrative out brilliantly. But it's very difficult to get past the amateurish acting and awkward dialogue. For the money it cost, it is impressive. Hopefully the writers will get a bigger budget next time out to smooth over the cracks.

Once we get past the inevitable "early-10" reviews (usually by members of the cast or maybe relatives of the caterers), and past the low-ball reviews that make a huge fuss about the budget (most indies have a low budget, which is why they are indies), we finally get a chance to look at the actual film. The first thing you notice is the runtime. Hawken did not set out to do a simple "filler" for cable because his final cut is well over 2 hours. This was a serious effort at a "genre-busting" riff on the now-popular "lost teen" niche. Except that, rather being a straightforward procedural, it breaks more of the genre's conventions than it follows. It is this aspect alone -- that the viewer cam never quite see around the next corner -- that makes NO REASONS more interesting than it would otherwise be. As for all the comments on the horror of the underlying story, wake up and smell the Evil. Anyone in law enforcement will tell you this film actually UNDERSTATES the reality.

Not much gore and no nudity but what a vile film. It kept me wondering what was going to happen. It's a sick world. I am one for the extreme side of cinema and this delivered.

I Am always one to support British Indie film making and make suitable allowances for the lack of multi-million pound budgeting but even I had profound difficulty in finding anything positive to say about this almost unbearable mess.

The premise of child sex trafficking is obviously extremely distasteful but , that aside , it had quite powerful possibilities which have been totally wasted.

It is as if the writer wanted every mundane syllable kept in the final cut and the direction to be as slowly paced as possible whilst including some of the poorest performances I've witnessed in quite some time. The ludicrous two & a quarter HOURS run time simply justify a more judicious use of a RED PEN in the hand of someone other than the writer/director. The only good points in this ridiculous , muddled mess are the decent performances of Lucinda Rhodes and the great Daniel Peacock who both deserve far better material than this convaluted , dire drivel, I've given them a mark each out of respect , but there are no reasons AT ALL to otherwise waste any time on this pile pf garbage.

I watched this the other night and really didn't care for it as I watched. But, afterwards, when I had time to think about it, I liked it better and want to watch again. The movie does a good job of presenting the problem of human trafficking without explicitly talking about it. It's a long movie. Some of the characters are rather comical. Not sure this isn't meant to be a very dark comedy. Not really much of a horror, with the exception of a few scenes. Nice twist at the end.