KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

danieljfenner Is it black-comedy or is it a crime thriller with just a LOT of comic relief? We may never know, nor does the director - Mr. Wheatley know himself. Which is testament to his genius. When it comes to confusion, Mr. Wheatley has mastered it. Of course, the tone of the film's outcome is also due to the stars Oram and Lowe who also penned the dryly comic script. Yet it is Wheatley's surreal style including dramatic slow-motion, disorienting jump cuts and jerky hand-held camera work that bring us into this anti-hero world of dull British tourism. It's like he will tease you with something really flashy then go back to being very minimal. As if Kubrick and Ken Loach made a movie together and took turns with every scene. This unpredictable British indie-gem feels like "Henry: The Portrait of Miss Sunshine." Or better yet, if "Natural Born Killers" was directed by Alexander Payne.Sightseers is a road comedy with a high body count, but it doesn't get lost in it's comedy. When it's time to be disturbed, brace yourself. Wheately has a way of building tension with whimsy and humour. You're thinking, "I know the tone is about to shift here." But it never does when you want it to. You just simply don't get what you want with a Wheatley film. "Kill List", also by Wheatley certainly didn't give anyone what they wanted but that didn't make it bad. We don't deserve a happy ending just because we are watching it. In many ways though it is a lot like "Kill List". They each open with a scene of domestic dysfunction, they each involve a pair of travelers with varying personalities who are incessantly irritated by their content peers that surround them. Whether they are folky Christians in a hotel restaurant or a rowdy bridal party in a tavern, they inspire the ire and scorn of their protagonists. If you like to laugh but then you find yourself having to schedule a visit with your therapist about said laughs, then Sightseers is for you! (Reading Rainbow interlude riff)

Coventry In my country there exists a term that literally translates as "disaster tourists" and it refers to irritating people that deliberate visit places where tragic accidents have occurred or even are occurring at the moment. The protagonist couple in "Sightseers" somehow reminded me of this, except that they give a whole new dimension to the term as it is them causing the tragic accidents deliberately! Tina is a 34-year-old naive and introvert woman who still lives with her dominant mother who blames her for the violent accidental death of their dog Poppy (as a result of a nasty knitting incident). But this is all about to change since Tina met and fell in love with Chris. He's a devoted caravan-tourist and invites Tina for a romantic vacation across all the sightseeing highlights in Yorkshire, including the spectacular tram and pencil museum. Quite early during the trip already, however, Chris turns out to be a sociopath murderer who slays people for banal reasons like littering a national monument site or plain simple pompous behavior. When Tina discovers Chris peculiar habits, she doesn't immediately disapprove but reacts rather open-minded and curious. "Sightseers" isn't a very original movie, as it bears quite a bit of resemblance to many other and older movies, like for example "Very Bad Things" or John Waters' "Serial Mom", but the main difference here is that this is a prototypic British movie and thus are the main characters dry and cynical and the humor in the script pitch black and offensive. The first half of "Sightseers" is fresh, inventive and extremely entertaining, but the film quickly becomes repetitive and predictable. As the climax approaches, the chemistry between the two lead characters has entirely vanished and the dialogs became dull and overlong. The final twist nevertheless still turned a sardonic smile on my face, but it was too late to save the overall film. Even though I'm an avid horror fanatic, I found "Sightseers" unnecessarily gory and gratuitous. In fact, the absolute best thing about the film is inarguably the photography of the beautiful British countryside and the aptly chosen sober soundtrack ("Tainted Love", anyone?). "Sightseers" received a lot of extra – undeserved – attention because it's directed by the new British prodigy Ben Wheatley. He became giant thanks to the supposedly terrific "Kill List" (which I haven't seen yet)

Steven Owen I didn't like this film at all. It had no plot. No substance. No laughs. It was pointless.This wasn't a weird film, it was just plain silly and as immature as pulling the wings off a fly.I'd rather watch Percy Jackson again, than this pile of steaming cow-dung.If you want to see middle-of-nowhere, possibly in-bred, locals only, stereotyping then watch "The League of Gentleman" UK TV series.Being from the North West of England not that far from Yorkshire, I might be a just little bit biased. Though I can honestly say I will not ever consider recommending this film to anyone with half a brain, and a proper sense-of-humour.If you've read this far then thank you. I hope I have saved you some time and money by pleading with you to not see this dire film.

riley kerr Never trust a bearded man with a caravan...The dark comedy darkened throughout the scene with random people intervening on their road trip Some parts of the film did in fact make me laugh however as it was bizarre it wouldn't be one of the films I would advise, and it would be a waste of time. The unrealism was astonishing. Chris Oram who was basically seen as being a psycho (in his own written film) turned his girlfriend Tina also into a psychopath. The film includes a variety of unusual and catastrophic scenes. Who would have guessed that it is she who caused the main death at the end.Every death was an accident...