Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Excellent but underrated film

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Chris & Tina are a schlubby couple who go on a road trip in a camper to see some sights in Northern England. They have not dated for more than a few months, so this is kind of a get-to-really-know-each-other-better trip. What Tina comes to know is that Chris is a serial killer. He has definite opinions about acceptable behavior and tends to murder those that fail the test. Tina not only accepts this, she turns out to be even better at it than Chris. A very dark comedy co-written by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram who play Chris & Tina. It has a tendency to veer from dark social satire right into horror film territory with some very gory deaths.

I was very surprised that every review wasn't along the lines of that of carliebseattle. This is close to being the worst movie I've ever seen. No plot - everything happens by happenstance. No exploration of character to glean the roots of the ongoing psychopathy (which, as this movie suggests, is apparently contagious). Most of what is intended to be comedy is not in the least humorous. There is a little bit of twisted sexual humour, but it's like giving a handful of popcorn to someone who hasn't eaten for three weeks. I've seen a lot of bad movies, but not many like this - ones so bad that it makes you angry you wasted your time watching it. The surprise ending is slightly satisfying, but doesn't come close to making up for the boring and misguided buildup. I'm only giving it a one out of ten because I'm not allowed to give it a zero rating. Warning - Don't be misled by the reviewer who claimed that you would like this if you loved Harold and Maude. You wouldn't.

It starts out with a woman going on a caravan holiday with her love interest.She has a hard time leaving her bossy mum and doesn't seem to have much of a life of her own. This part of the movie takes way to long and one of the first "funny moments" is her saying mum for about thirty times before she gets a reaction. This reminded me of a family guy episode and there it was done way better.The first (accidental) kill is somewhat stupid and strangely enough the police lets them go on their way with out any real investigation or even advising them to stay in the place where this all happened.It is convenience plots all the way thru and most of their actions just don't make sense and a lot of it is also repetitive.It's like the sociopath version of love story where the love part has been changed to a kinky sex relation which seems to be their answer to any relational problem they have in this movie.Some of the scenery was nice,the actors weren't that bad but the story takes it all down by over simplifying everything and still leaving you with a feeling that it's all not very realistic.I recommend you see it once,just don't expect to much of it.Noticed it won some prices.Must have been a slow year.

Every year a director comes along and he's heralded as "The saviour of the British film industry" . Sometimes the hype does come true such as Danny Boyle when he released his low budgets hits SHALLOW GRAVE and TRAINSPOTTING but always an up and coming director appears on the horizon then disappears again . A decade ago it was Shane Meadows and in the last four or five years it was the turn of Ben Wheatley who carry the "He's gonna save the British film industry" torch. Well to be fair Ben has an upcoming film coming out later this year called HIGH RISE with a relatively intriguing and well known cast and one hopes that HIGH RISE is cinematic unlike SIGHTSEERS I've got to be honest here and say the entire look of this movie lets down whatever story there is here . That said it is produced by Channel 4 films which means it has at least one eye on merely being produced for and watched on television but wasn't SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE also produced by Channel 4 ? See how cinematic that ended up as . Here with SIGHTSEERS the lack of budget and ambition means you're watching something rather flat in cinematic terms . The performances are flat as are the darkly comic lines which sort of sabotages the whole point of the film . In summary if you didn't like Wheatley's previous film DOWN TERRACE you probably won't like this one either