Concrete Plans

An aloof ex-army man is renovating an isolated, inherited property and employs five construction workers to live on-site for the duration of the project. When payment is with-held, tensions gradually build ...

It has a great script and is well acted. The makers have achieved a lot on a (presumably) low budget. It doesn't take long for the movie to become quite gripping and, once it kicks in, manages to hold the tension throughout.

Perhaps a bit unoriginal and unlikely to stand out in the taut drama/thriller genre but is a solid movie and well worth watching.

It's hard to say anything about this film really, it just wasn't that good, but it wasn't THAT bad either.

I went into it with relatively high hopes given the decent cast, and their performances were what kept my interest.

The story meanders, as it tries desperately to flesh out the backstory of all those involved without actually going far enough to make the viewer care about any of them.

An ex army descendant of a wealthy dynasty trying to get his inheritance, a struggling business owner, a murderer on the run, an illegal immigrant trying to make some cash to send home for his daughter, an old bloke and a work-shy little yob; that's your cast and that's about as much as we really find out about them.

There is also a love interest and a dodgy accountant, but despite being relatively important characters we find even less out about them than the rest.

Scenes vary from paint drying to graphic violence, but the one vein that runs through them all is the nonsensical decisions that continue to be made.

Any scrap of an interesting sub-plot gets hastily cast by the wayside in favour of the ham-fisted main story, thrown in to pad things out as much as anything else.

Plot holes are in abundance too, but in all honesty that's the least of the films problems.

I've seen a lot of comments claiming they did an amazing job given the budget, but I fail to see what these reviewers thought cash had been spent on.

Barring one particularly gruesome effect with a drill, the rest could have been achieved with a few hundred quid down at a hardware store, a dozen bottles of vampire blood from the Poundland and some facial prosthetics that wouldn't have looked out of place in a Hammer Horror from the 70s.

The actors gave it their all and for that they should be commended, there are a couple of laughs to he had, but there isn't much else here to enjoy.

The film has it all - gore, humour, intellect. Not for the faint hearted.

This is a strong structured thriller showing how a group of men can become monsters over something like money. A pretty good cast star in this film and I thought the pacing all the way up to the climax were good and showed each of them and how it took a tool on them.

I read the 1 star reviews and they are wrong; A 1 star means its the worst film you have ever seen so when a reviewer leaves this for a movie like this then you can pretty much disregard them as a proper reviewer along with the usual 9 and 10 star shills as well.

Although the film is not going to win any oscars. it has some excellent acting performances from literally every member of the cast and some particularly harrowing well acted scenes and i was guffawing at one point in the midst of the brutality which is most unusual - some of the lines are pure class "Is he dead? Well he is not doing the Macarena" is my favourite line delivered with aplomb and what can I say but Steve Speirs is just brilliant in anything he stars in.

Goran Bogdan almost steals the show but the whole cast made the movie so much more than its small basic script and it never lost any pacing or interest for me and based on its low budget they did a splendid job so I am giving it a fair above average 6/10.