PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

john-pearse79 Starts off okay but gets farcical in the latter stages. Could have been so much better

indraco Great acting, great story. The suspense made it difficult to watch till the end. Is a movie that will stick for at least a few days.

tims67-100-510744 What a film, a hidden gem to say the least and one of the best British production films i have ever seen.I usually avoid British films like the plague and in particular gangster uk films due to the lack of depth/acting/direction and ofcourse the script but Calibre was different, it had everything for me/// script/production/acting/location and direction also was not bad at all. Matt Palmer who i had never heard of until this movie nailed it in my opinion, he managed to russle up a great script and not only that, he also wrestled some great actors into the frame, Tony Curran is a well known and fantastic Glasweigian actor, also Jack Lowden is for me an up and coming actor to keep a close eye on as he looks like he will grow and hit the top aswell due to his early Theatre works.Fantastic performance from Martin McCann aswell i have to say too throughout (call the cops stinking of Whiskey?) brilliant !I have to add that Kate Bracken done her part quite well too but i dont know if its just me but she is a dead ringer for Rachel McAdams in this particular movie.I also have to add that i am myself scottish and love hunting,i also love the highlands.It ofcourse points me in the direction of being one sided, however this is not the case, i have rated this movie ohnestly.For me this movie was exciting,exhilarating,unexpected, very powerful and will relate to cold case type files for movie or made for movie type series program viewers.Good Luck !

Lloyd Bayer The choices we make will ultimately define consequences we must face in the future. Or so, we've been told since a young age. Writer-director Matt Palmer gives that axiom a wicked spin in Calibre, a Netflix release not to be underestimated by its lean length and production budget. Before the film reaches its inevitable and horrifying conclusion, Calibre will have the audience questioning what is right and wrong. Viewers may even find themselves rooting for either the timid and polite Vaughn (Jack Lowden) or the confident and outgoing (Marcus Martin McCann), old friends off to the Sottish highlands for a bit of deer hunting. This would also be their last getaway as bachelors before Vaughn marries his newly pregnant fiancé. Upon arrival at the local tavern, the duo find the locals less than hospitable. At first it's not clear whether the locals don't take kindly to outsiders or they just don't like big city executives flirting with the local women. A night of pub-hopping later, the next morning starts with a hangover and ends with a nightmare that doesn't end.Thus begins Palmer's feature debut until it takes you to its mind-numbing and gripping final thirty minutes. If you survive this, the very last scene will leave you with an icy shiver. Very bad things happen in this film, some of which in quick succession and before we get a chance to digest the gravity of the horror unfolding on screen. While it's not about whether viewers can stomach some of the violence, the question that emerges is in identifying who the real villains are. Getting into more detail would be doing this shocking and edgy thriller a disservice but the two male leads are excellent, each in their own way. Lowden, fresh of the success of Christopher Nolan's war epic Dunkirk, and McCann building on his terrific performance in the 2016 post-apocalyptic thriller The Survivalist, are both exceptional in a simple story of a stag-weekend gone terribly wrong. Even so, they are both matched by strong talent from the likes of Tony Curran and Ian Pirie, playing village locals who are essentially law of the land. Calibre is evidently shot on a low budget but still manages to keep the viewer arrested with a sinking feeling that the worst is yet to come. While the premise of a stag night gone bad, or outsiders having to outsmart suspicious locals have been done many times before, Palmer's story is somehow counter-intuitive to what one would expect. In between balancing our sympathies for the two leads against a situation that gets gruesome by the minute, Palmer deserves the most praise for taking a familiar story and giving it a diabolical yet intentional twist. Neatly embedded in the story are also subtle questions about the disparity of power, wealth, and justice, while offering nothing but a bleak answer as to how and why bad things happen to good people. It isn't a joyous film to recommend and neither is there anything pleasant about the film but if so much can be delivered with so little, then Matt Palmer is the name to look for as the new and upcoming master of the macabre.