It really is quite palpable and riveting at times. The leads, Jack Lowden and Martin McCann, are very good, and the taut script and direction offer ever-increasing tension. After a first night at the remote locale having some unwise, drunken misadventures with local girls that complicate things later, they go out on the hunting trip and things go horribly wrong. Two freinds, one of whom has a wife who is expecting a baby (what is this, two films in a row now, is there some kind of pregnancy trend/trope going on under my nose here?) go to the Scottish Highlands for a hunting trip. I guess what I’m saying is, if they are almost essentially free, how much slack should I possibly cut a film, if any? Or alternatively, is it fair to judge a film like Calibre against some other big-budget Hollywood thriller? Maybe that’s a debate for some later date.Ĭalibre, meanwhile, is a very good, very effective thriller- it would be rather easy, albeit lazy, to describe it as being like Deliverance in Scotland, but it is, so there you go, I went and did it. Although we are all paying a subscription every month for Netflix so are, yes, paying to watch them, neither are we paying cinema ticket-prices or digital-rental prices, especially when, if we watch enough of them in a month, that subscription price basically makes the price of each film pretty much negligible. Not that they are exactly straight-to-video films with all the b-movie connotations of the VHS era that applies, but clearly neither are they, generally speaking, big movies that you would watch at the cinema.

Another Netflix Original film- actually, I wonder if when reviewing films such as this if I should apply seperate criteria to them.

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