Must See Movie...

Best movie ever!

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Paddy Considine's performance alone is worthy of the 10/10 rating. Considine's character Morell truly pulls you into the film, funny, creepy, twisted, sad, emotional, his character touches all emotions. Screen time without Morell can best be described as taking cigarettes away from a smoker. It's amazing how films like this go under the radar and are never brought up in conversation about great British films.I've watched this twice in 2 days, mainly down to Considine's performance and I'm pretty sure it won't be my last viewing.Morell has now become one of my favourite cult film characters, great quotes, great mannerisms, great performance... oh and great clothes.

just sitting here watching this and ...wow...Paddy Considine what a great job he does starts of all nice and shy then starts to turn....and man does he turn .....mind you ....whats up with the dad (bill) ...wheres ya balls ....I do like the way Paddy delivers his performance on this on e and think i will try and find out more about his work! This movie is sure worth a look ! the two boys do a delightful job of keeping the flow of the movie even an appearance by bob hoskins is interesting to see. I'm sitting here watching it and wondering if Paddy is going to make a final comeback after getting his beans ...watching with antisipation

not just another 'briddish' movie, this.although meadows already had one well recieved full-length feature (24/7) behind him, and a sizable reputation for being handy with a camcorder (he's made an impressive number of shorts), somehow this brave and sophisticated film got lost in the post lock, stock slop. strange as it stands head and shoulders above anything else made in britain in the past 5 years.but to define this peculier acheivement purely on the terms that it is british would be a terrible slight against this great movie. it is a film so sharp and true that it should please in just about anywhere, that just about anyone should be able to identify with the comic-horrors on display here. comic-horrors just as we might find them in life.much of this truth and beauty comes from the cast themselves. shim and marshall give relaxed performances, investing the film with charm, providing the emotional core, and avoiding the trappings that most actors of their age may have fallen into (gurning, grimacing, appearing generally overwrought). the adults are uniformly excellent to, but, perhaps inevtiably, it's paddy considine's morrell that makes the biggest impression. a man-child part that so many could've done so wrong considine gives a wild and unruly comic turn and twists the film into a darkness that few recent british films would dare to without the safety net of drugs or mockney gangsters. when it gets dark, it gets pitch-black. but we can never less than sympathetic for morrell. meadows knows his character inside out, and refuses to demonise him. we are never left wondering what is tormenting him, and meadows highlights that morrell's vicious alter-ego stems from being born into a society which has no place for him, and which constantly misunderstands him. even in the shocking climax meadows refuses to sanitise morrell. by not having the police come and tow him away, meadows leaves the question open, what will become of people like morrell? and believe me, they exist.a film that packs an emotional and political punch, is funny, and charming, and true. the sometimes intrusive folk-sy soundtrack aside, it's what you've been waiting for.

Let me get to the point about this film. Paddy Considine is outstandingly brilliant in the role that should have made him an icon if anyone had bothered to see it! He is at once dynamic, dangerous, disturbing and occasionly comic. He reminded me of Travis Bickle that De Niro so brilliantly played in Taxi Driver. High praise indeed, but very deserving as we are in an age where everybody moans about British cinema without bothering to seek gems like this out. So well done to Shane Meadows, keep churning out class like this and 24/7 and you'll become a legend!! From The West Midlands