Though all-but scuppered by scripting issues and variable acting, it boasts a beautiful slide-guitar score, a fearsome bare-knuckle boxing sequence and a sweary cameo from Charlie Boorman.
An ordinary script and characters that are impossible to really care about saps the life from this low-budget Brit thriller.
A potentially interesting idea for a lo-fi British Deliverance-style thriller is badly let down by very slack acting and dialogue, topped off with humourless sentimentalism.
Deliverance in the English countryside is not such an outlandish idea, but it would probably require more money, and definitely more finesse and competence, than this ragged DIY film can muster.
It's close in aspiration, though not in achievement, to the Walter Hill classic Southern Comfort, and reminiscent of Deliverance.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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