eloy_lb 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.

Sankari_Suomi 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.

fedor8 The shocker wasn't the predictable ending but IMDb's page. "Comedy/Crime" it says. What comedy? There wasn't an iota of a funny moment in this. The movie was interesting throughout – barring the slow and muddled 10-15-minutes intro – but if this was intended as a comedy then it failed miserably. As a crime drama it's an 8/10, as a comedy it is a round zero.I enjoyed the various plot-twists, but who didn't realize that Karl's mental instability would lead to murder within the family? The movie's other problem is its lack of realism. A family this distrustful would have annihilated each other years ago, because we have to assume that Karl didn't become a manic-depressive trigger/hammer-happy psychopath overnight. The ease with which Maggie kills her own brother doesn't ring true either, even though it was a fun plot-twist. The ease with which Karl's PREGNANT girlfriend butchers Maggie rings even less true. Having one brutal female killer in a movie is acceptable, but having two is just stretching the credibility somewhat.Just because all these people are involved with the mob cannot make ALL of them criminally insane, not to this extent anyway. They kill each other off far too easily – within a very small time-frame - while displaying a lack of discipline and self-control that makes me wonder how the hell these people ever even got into organized crime (organized, meaning you don't just go and kill anybody you want off-hand) and how they managed to last longer than an hour. Key word: "organized". If the British mob were this anarchic, it wouldn't exist; it's that simple. Fact is, it's not just the family that is kill-happy, but everyone else also. I was half-expecting a milkman to appear out of nowhere and to start swinging knives and axes around.Again, I refuse to forgive the film on account of it being allegedly a comedy – because it clearly isn't one. (God help DT's writers if they thought they were writing one!) I suppose a lot of the interesting twists came at the expense of logic and credibility, both of these being sacrificed in order to advance the story's interest potential. Even if it were a comedy, it's not a comedy in the ZAZ or even Guy Ritchie vein, hence a certain degree of realism has to be expected.A word of advice to the director and writers: the only way a black comedy can work – i.e. be funny as opposed to just interesting – is to turn it into a stylized, large-than-life venture, not a kitchen-sink ordeal. The kitchen-sink approach works only for drama, never for a comedy within a serious context i.e. a serious subject matter. You can't make a bunch of bonafide psychopaths funny and amusing if you film them with a wobbly camcorder, getting the viewer too close to the reality of their dark existence, warts, kitchen-sinks and all. Plus, you need actors with comedic abilities, and those aren't easy to come by."British Sopranos" my butt. Watch this as a psychological crime drama and you will get something out of it. Watch it as a comedy and you will be extremely disappointed.

FlashCallahan After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the family business is on the rocks, and the crew of criminals who operate out of the house aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but the walls are closing in...All directors had to start somewhere, and although there are flashes of genius that were to come, it all feels very amateur and a little hard to swallow. I was expecting some funny banter between the cast, and whilst it has it very now and again, its not enough to keep you from losing interest.The cast are good, and there are some funny moments, especially when Karl is looking for some letters, but the way its filmed just feels too claustrophobic, and if this was Wheatleys I tension, he's overdone it a little.Compared to the likes of Kill List, Sightseers, and A Field In England, its not good, but it has the Wheatley magic in there for you to enjoy the flashes of genius, but there are just too many flaws.