Overrated

How sad is this?

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Complete waste of time. I fast forwarded at the end just to see the stupid end. Bloody, awful, meaningless piece of crap that the producers call a movie?? No wonder it has grossed $9000 only. It has no meaning, just a family killing people and their own. I don't believe I've wasted time on this sh*t. I've seen bad movies in the past, but this one tops them all.Complete waste of time. I fast forwarded at the end just to see the stupid end. Bloody, awful, meaningless piece of crap that the producers call a movie?? No wonder it has grossed $9000 only. It has no meaning, just a family killing people and their own. I don't believe I've wasted time on this sh*t. I've seen bad movies in the past, but this one tops them all.

Ben Wheatley's gritty British kitchen sink crime drama, shot in just 8 days on a micro-budget of $30,000! The story is set in Brighton, that shabby old dame by the sea. Famous for her filth, squalor, and vibrant LGBTQI2-SPAA culture, where on any given day the local hipsters can enjoy gluten free organic vegan food with a side order of a clumsy hand job from a weeping, drug addicted 12 year old rent boy sporting two black eyes and menaced by a 55 year old pimp. Good times!Crime family patriarch Bill has recently returned home from prison, where he schemes with wife Maggie to uncover the backstabbing snitch who grassed on him. His son Karl has aspirations of a new life with pregnant girlfriend Valda, but Bill and Maggie do not approve. Tensions rise when Garvey—Bill's inept sidekick—innocently suggests to Karl that Valda might have enjoyed sexual exploits beyond their relationship. Local hit-man Chris Pringle is struggling to fit his professional obligations around the responsibility of caring for his three year old son and his geriatric mother. Uncle Eric assists him with an elegant solution. Councillor Berman nurses a dark secret that he might soon take to his grave. Maggie suspects Uncle Eric. London gangster Johnny is concerned by unconfirmed reports of poorly concealed murders in the Brighton area. Karl's relationship with his father grows worse. Valda has plans of her own.This is a stunningly powerful film that shows what can be achieved by solid dialogue and well polished characterisation.I rate Down Terrace at 26.64 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a showstopping 8/10 on IMDb.

This is the reason I watch British films. Its not for the pomp and circumstance and hither thee will and stuff. It's because the dialogue and characters are as rich as a velvet cake. From the opening scene I was engaged and entertained. Half the dialog in this movie doesn't push the story along just flushes out the character's more. The main characters just got out of jail and are desperately trying to figure out who turned them in. And by "desperately" I mean complaining about the quality of the welcome home cake. For being gangster they really never do anything gangsterish. No deals, no dealing with the police, no rival gangsters. Some brief repartee, some tit for tat then the next thing you know, …..They just start killing everybody for every reason, none that have to do with the upcoming court case and snitching.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning The plot to Down Terrace is mostly formulaic for the gangster genre- two men being released from prison, belonging to a crime family, trying to suss out the police informant who put them there, and everything going haywire as they near closer to who they think is the culprit. But it seems to think it's cleverer than maybe it is, with so little inspiration to the story and nothing snazzy in other departments. None of the dialogue rings true or feels natural and it's hard to take Jay's dad from The Inbetweeners seriously in one of the gangster roles. Someone else may interpret it a little differently, but personally, the novelty was lost. **