It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The warnings before this was shown on E4 couldn't have been clearer: this film is near the knuckle. As I was feeling in a gloomy mood anyway, it seemed the ideal time to finally get round to watching it.Less than a minute into it and I'm already disgusted. And I don't disgust easily.What works brilliantly is the way Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan's characters interact and come alive. They may have lives at totally different ends of the social scale but both of their lives are touched by violence and suffering. Despite Hannah's patient attempts to help Joseph, the aggression that has clearly played a large part in his life is never far below his craggy surface. Her own inner rage flares up too, sometimes towards Joseph but even her abusive wanker of a husband. Interesting that Hannah's Christian values didn't allow her to forgive Joseph after his harsh words about her personal life. The irony of the joyously alive-ness of the wake is not lost on me. Very well done.The ending left me feeling a tad let-down. Without spoiling it, the final consequences seem unfair to me. Yes the characters have shown progression but it was the physical position in which Colman finds herself that I didn't feel was justified. I also would have preferred if Joseph had 'discussed things' with the dog's owner.

Paddy Considine's directorial debut stars Peter Mullan as a violent, hard-drinking widower who cannot control his extremely self-destructive outbursts of violent anger. He meets Olivia Colman who works at a Christian charity shop, and her influence seems to calm him ... somewhat. Colman is far from stable herself, as she has been trying to deal with her husband Eddie Marsan's increasingly bizarre, violent and unstable behavior. This is a bleak film. It establishes just how bleak it is in the first few minutes probably shedding most viewers with an incredibly unfair and heartbreaking burst of violence. It's an incredibly rewarding film though featuring three of the bravest, most deeply committed performances I have seen in quite some time. It ultimately involves change, but very slight change offering a really small degree of uplift.

Having done some of his best work with director Shane Meadows, it's no surprise that first-time director Paddy Considine turned to the darkest areas of the human soul to find a story that is both violent and romantic, without ever confusing the two. The Meadows/Considine collaborations A Room for Romeo Brass (1999) and Dead Man's Shoes (2004) were an unsettling mixture of mental anguish and kitchen-sink drama, but Considine's debut, Tyrannosaur, keeps the tone firmly within the boundaries of the Ken Loach School of Gritty Film-Making, which help make this often gentle tale of two broken souls finding common ground often difficult to sit through.An expansion of Considine's BAFTA award-winning short Dog Altogether, Tyrannosaur follows Joseph (Peter Mullan), a heavy- drinking and unemployed widower with extreme anger issues. We first meet him being thrown out of a pub following an unseen altercation, after which he kicks his dog to death in the street in a blind rage. Further anti-social behaviour sees him end up in a charity shop owned by God-fearing Hannah (Olivia Colman). Joseph is abusive and possibly dangerous, but she decides to help him anyway. Hannah's apparently comfortable middle-class life is at odds with the tougher upbringing experienced by Joseph, and he initially scolds her for it. Yet as the charity shop evolves into something of a safe haven for Joseph, he comes to learn that Hannah's marriage to James (Eddie Marsan) is an abusive one, and that she has her own demons to face.The film certainly doesn't pull its punches. From the opening scene of witnessing the protagonist of the story brutally kill his own animal to a graphic rape later in the movie, Tyrannosaur is uncomfortable viewing but is never out to simply shock. The character of Joseph was based on Considine's father, but rather than being a carousel of unpleasant experiences torn from the directors memories, the film instead ponders whether a life wasted can be redeemed. Joseph and Hannah may seem to be complete opposites, but their shared disappointment in the life they have led and the suffering they have endured makes for a romantic bond that is both believable and profound. The relationship is given extra weight by the performances of the two leads. Mullan is uniformly excellent in a type of role he has done before, but Colman, who was up to this point of her career mainly known for her comedy work, is a revelation. An impressive debut work from an actor I have admired since I first saw him back in '99.

Man, saying Tyrannosaur is not a happy movie is quite an understatement. The main character is a rude and unlikeable man who beat and mistreated his overweight wife (the titular Tyrannosaur, she's dead), has an extremely hostile attitude towards his environment and to top it off is a raging alcoholic. He comes across a religious upper-class woman who turns out to have some problems of her own. The film has a very bleak color palette matching the bleak outlook on life of most people in this story. Though I would not really recommend this movie as a must see, I do have to say that it is well made and acted for what it is. But what it is, is a dark depressing film about people living on the edge of society who have a different state of mind than average Joe. Still a better watch than most American Comedies these days.