VoodooVince

Where do you begin to summarise a film like this? The start I guess. Oh wait - there isn't one. You know you're in for a rough time when a film's opening drops you into a scene that feels like you've somehow already missed 10 minutes. Who are these people? Where are they and what hell are they doing? The director/screenwriter doesn't bother with any of that. They're people on a boat. With a bad man. Who escapes. That's about all you're getting folks. What then follows is some of the worst direction, acting, editing and photography you will ever have the misfortune to witness. It's truly mind numbing that a film with such horrendous technical deficiencies could ever pass muster. They should have dropped the final cut of this mess into a vat of acid and tossed the director in after it. That would have spared us this nonsense and any other ideas Hunter may have in his head.

0/10

Here we have yet another film portraying Glasgow to the world as the most depressing city on earth. Yes, I realise there are those who lived this way (and some still do) but do does every film based in Glasgow have to be a one note social commentary? "Oh look, it's gray!" "Listen, everyone speaks like trash!" "Look, all the women are hard as nails and pug ugly!" "Shock horror, everyone's always fighting!" That in itself isn't the main flaw with this film though. The bottom line is it's a plotless, storyless waste of time. Ramsay thinks she's clever. She isn't. Any fool from Glasgow could shoot a film centering on the city's problems. Which are, unsurprisingly enough, much the same as any other city's problems. This isn't new and it certainly isn't interesting. Having said that, it was hard for me to view this film objectively. Maybe I'm incapable of an unbiased review but how many of these miserable, offensive film's can one bear? We're not all uneducated pilgrims you know.