I'll tell you why so serious

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Mona (Aiysha Hart) is a westernized Pakistani living in England. Her relationship with her boyfriend, as well as her westernized ways have dishonored the family. In the first few minutes of the film, she is killed and placed in a trunk. We then flash back to the events leading up to her demise.An Aryan Brotherhood hitman (Paddy Considine) is hired to find and return her in the flashback. His normal job is to kill dishonored Muslim women, working for the community of Muslims while all the while hating them. About 50 minutes into the film we are back to where we started. There was no good reason for the flashback other than to confuse us and to tease us with some action in this slow action drama.The film is a bit dry and formulaic. F-bomb. Brief implied sex. No nudity.

10?? have not given a 10 since Paper Moon but the reason for a 10 is as follows.Very disturbing view of British multi cultural existence,,,that being the only reason for a 10...very brave direction and storytelling that could have easily ended up as an anti Muslim or racist vehicle...movies like this should be made to make us think about our own boundaries and ideals ...now the review of the movie itself which would have warranted a 4 or maybe 5.The only thing that lets it down is Paddy Considene..not because he is bad but because he is such a brilliant actor people will watch it just to see him..it should have been made with unknowns so the message was about the narrative,,,not the actors. Never before have I found myself feeling so uncomfortable watching a movie...and that is what movie making is all about.I shall be watching for the director in the future.

The film addresses the insanity of extremists who are so spiritually void that they believe it is okay to kill a member of their own family if that member wishes to choose their own lover, specifically a lover whom is out of favor with the said extremists. This kind of death-wish upon another is plain nuts and has no place what-so-ever on our planet or in the universe.Anyone who considers honour killing an acceptable way to behave needs re-education in the ways of logic and compassion.Crimes of passion will likely always happen, and happen across a variety of cultures worldwide. But when it happens, the appropriate penalties must be applied. It is a shame that in some counties it is tolerated by local authorities, this is the problem.It is a murderous and sub-human practice. If severe punishment were dispensed to the imbeciles who order these murders, worldwide, then more children will learn the right way.They will learn that love should not be restricted by race or religion.

I saw this recently at an Insight event - promoting faith based films - which did not in the end feel quite right. The focus is on testosterone-led patriarchy rather than religion. Nice touch (minor spoiler) that the elder brother is in the police.The central couple are sympathetic although their relationship is sketched as minimally as necessary to set the plot going. An interesting angle is intra-communal snobbery (almost racism) of the woman's family towards the Panjabi boyfriend. This is expressed most contemptuously by the elder brother but also leads to the most brilliant scene in which he simultaneously speeds to a domestic violence incident whilst threatening murder in Urdu on the phone to the other brother.The producer said his intention was "to entertain" and that it was not an issue-based film.It's definitely gripping and free of sanctimony. I think "tell a story" would have better covered both his/their commercial hopes and the use of honour killing as a plot.A sort of real-life Hunger Games - the woman is rather character-less but you root for her.