Highly enjoyable third film from
Ben Wheatley, the director of
Down Terrace and
Kill List. A pitch black, hugely violent comedy about a couple on a caravanning holiday, whose journey around the North of England quickly descends into a kill crazy rampage (if you can have a kill crazy rampage when you're visiting cathedrals and pencil museums). Much like Kill List it was more of the same contrast between mundane everyday Middle England-isms and sudden bouts of ultraviolence, that give the most surprises. But it was also bleakly very funny and tonally a bit of a headscratcher. Again, like Kill List if you stop and think about it all, it comes apart very easily (particularly in terms of character logic etc) but you really don't stop to overanalyse it because the ride is so much ruddy fun. As blackly comic as it's possible to get. Well worth a watch.
M.I.F.F. Rating 4 out of 5.
IMDB:
Sightseers
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