Backwoods on DVD (2006)

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TREV , 16/06/2008

NOT BAD , COULD HAVE BEEN A TADGE BETTER AND MORE HAPPENING , BUT NOT TOO BAD WORTH A LOOK

  6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

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Angelchaos from Worthing, England [Highly rated reviewer] , 06/07/2008

OK, so i'm disappointed that Paddy Considine is finally in a bad movie. He is one of my favourite actors and you can usually bank on anything he puts his name to.

I can only imagine that he and the superb Gary Oldman, really got shafted making this movie. They both try really hard to make this great, but even with both of their considerable talents on show, the movie has no plot.

It does have a tense and claustrophobic atmosphere throughout, which makes you feel that something really terrible or dramatic is always around the corner, but you cannot help but feel cheated when there is none.

I wonder if the tension is because the actors realised once they were out in the middle of nowhere just what a disaster the whole project had become.

It really doesn't help that the two leading females are flat and completely without enthusiasm for their roles. They just come across as moody and spoilt.

It's a shame, because it looks the business. Watch STRAW DOGS, FUNNY GAMES or DELIVERANCE instead.

  6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

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gizz from Beverley [Highly rated reviewer] , 15/06/2008

i enjoyed this movie, always love to watch paddy considine and gary oldman, the movie is quite creepy with some good atmosphere throughout. enjoyed it

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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antonio from Bexhill-on-Sea [Highly rated reviewer] , 10/07/2008

very bad... so bad I'm speechless. Plot bad .... script bad ... acting... what acting?

A thorough waste of an evening.

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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Angelchaos from Worthing, England [Highly rated reviewer] , 06/07/2008

OK, so i'm disappointed that Paddy Considine is finally in a bad movie. He is one of my favourite actors and you can usually bank on anything he puts his name to.

I can only imagine that he and the superb Gary Oldman, really got shafted making this movie. They both try really hard to make this great, but even with both of their considerable talents on show, the movie has no plot.

It does have a tense and claustrophobic atmosphere throughout, which makes you feel that something really terrible or dramatic is always around the corner, but you cannot help but feel cheated when there is none.

I wonder if the tension is because the actors realised once they were out in the middle of nowhere just what a disaster the whole project had become.

It really doesn't help that the two leading females are flat and completely without enthusiasm for their roles. They just come across as moody and spoilt.

It's a shame, because it looks the business. Watch STRAW DOGS, FUNNY GAMES or DELIVERANCE instead.

  6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

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BadJUJU from London [Highly rated reviewer] , 06/08/2008

How on EARTH a movie can have such amazing talent in it (Paddy my hero), and yet be a total waste of time and full of wooden performances is beyond me. It was like a poor man's Straw Dogs, with a senseless plot and pointless events.(And let's not even START on the bad 'vintage' costume effort)

Unbelievably bad!!!!!!

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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