Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

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

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

rdoyle29 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.

Hartstikke Leuk Here I sit, deeply affected by this film.This may be the only film that has made me forgive the animal(s) being killed (of course I know it wasn't real, but I just can't stand even the thought of it) because it led to a beautiful catharsis in the end, a certain change, even though, not explicitly so. I am in awe as to how the actors performed. It did not, for a brief moment, feel like acting. The child actor was magnificent as well. It all felt, dare I say, a little too real. And that is why this film is not just a film, it is an entirely profound experience on its own. It is its own world. The violence in the story, even if it feels uncalled for (James towards Hannah, Samuel's mom's bf towards her and Sam and the dog, Joseph's, well, towards almost everyone) is just there to show just how vulnerable humans really are - and we all know that when most vulnerable, the beast is actually the most dangerous.The bringing together of the two people who are at their breaking points here makes no magical, Hollywoody happy end. They help each other grow but not as many would expect it. They grow in a sense that they both pick up their strengths and do what they find needed for them to survive (not physically, rather mentally), even if it hurts them in some way. They help each other realize they would need to sacrifice a part of their already broken humanity in order to fulfill a goal of getting a peace of mind. This just goes to show that, simply put, life is a baggage but it does not have to be a burden. Ultimately, this is what I learned from this masterpiece: humans are flawed, fragile, broken, angry and pathetic. However, we all have a chance at redemption. Depends on what you find redemption is. I guess, we all have a chance at our own little personal redemptions. Our own private little Vietnams or hells becoming our own private little peaceful Saturday mornings.

Richard Bailey This is without a doubt one of the hardest movies I have ever sat through, I can cope with a lot, but this one purposely makes you feel uncomfortable. It is very grim, violent and often disturbing, some of the scenes made me feel genuinely uncomfortable. I love Paddy Considine as an actor, he proved by writing and directing this that his talents are vast and many. Peter Mullan is superb as Joseph, Eddie Marsan is incredible as Hannah's violent husband, he made me feel guilty for watching the film. It is the performance of Olivia Colman that makes this movie something special, she is a totally likable actress, but in Tyrannosaur she proved that she can be a superb actress, her performance was on another level.

Peter Pluymers Hannah: I feel safe with you. Joseph: Nobody's safe with me.This was a damn good movie. One that holds you tight and won't let go. One that shakes you up and once again points out that your everyday life isn't so bad. A fairly heavy movie with partner violence as an emotional topic, intertwined with a religious layer. It's not exactly a movie you should watch if you are in an emotional dip, because it's actually a terrible dark depressing film.The acting performance of Mullan and Colman was overwhelming and impressive. 2 Tormented souls who find each other and ultimately find support in each other. Joseph a terribly aggressive loner who apparently already battered his wife and now lives in a daily haze of alcohol. It's in such a drunk moment that the aggression and rage appears once and while in such a terrible way that he even kicks his faithful dog to death. Or he starts threatening a teenager in a pub. Eventually, he runs into a secondhand clothing store, where he meets Hannah. A deeply religious woman who is a victim of sexual violence and abuse by her husband. Despite that they are actually opposites, they try to cling to each other and support each other.The strength of the movie is its realism. The image of rage and violence. I don't think any of the images or segments used in this movie is exaggerated. It's not an easy film to watch and it leaves a bitter aftertaste. But the film touched me deeply and was full of intense feelings.The best part was the funeral of Joseph's friend, where everyone in the pub is drinking a beer and someone sings a sensitive song on his guitar. A time when you briefly see the two main characters flourishing, and that they can enjoy the simple things in life. More reviews at http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/