Pjtaylor-96-138044 I can see what this rustic black comedy is going for but 'Sightseers (2012)' just doesn't connect with me. I don't identify with the characters or story and the almost purposeful lack of meaningful drive means it's difficult to become engaged with. There are inspired moments of dark humour that serve more to push the mundane psychopathy of the characters than to actually provide belly laughs. The lack of judgement is refreshing and makes for a unique take on a tried-and-tested story, too. Overall, though, it's a pretty dull, joyless experience. 5/10

poetrypants Finally got to watch this highly rated "terrific black comedy". Ironically this couple travel from the W midlands the length of England in this Lottery funded piece and never meet a black character. We've come so far since Nottinghill ... If you want a genuinely original piece about the weird machinations of white people camping go straight to Nuts in May, the master piece by Mike Leigh

rdoyle29 Chris & Tina are a schlubby couple who go on a road trip in a camper to see some sights in Northern England. They have not dated for more than a few months, so this is kind of a get-to-really-know-each-other-better trip. What Tina comes to know is that Chris is a serial killer. He has definite opinions about acceptable behavior and tends to murder those that fail the test. Tina not only accepts this, she turns out to be even better at it than Chris. A very dark comedy co-written by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram who play Chris & Tina. It has a tendency to veer from dark social satire right into horror film territory with some very gory deaths.

Theo Robertson Every year a director comes along and he's heralded as "The saviour of the British film industry" . Sometimes the hype does come true such as Danny Boyle when he released his low budgets hits SHALLOW GRAVE and TRAINSPOTTING but always an up and coming director appears on the horizon then disappears again . A decade ago it was Shane Meadows and in the last four or five years it was the turn of Ben Wheatley who carry the "He's gonna save the British film industry" torch. Well to be fair Ben has an upcoming film coming out later this year called HIGH RISE with a relatively intriguing and well known cast and one hopes that HIGH RISE is cinematic unlike SIGHTSEERS I've got to be honest here and say the entire look of this movie lets down whatever story there is here . That said it is produced by Channel 4 films which means it has at least one eye on merely being produced for and watched on television but wasn't SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE also produced by Channel 4 ? See how cinematic that ended up as . Here with SIGHTSEERS the lack of budget and ambition means you're watching something rather flat in cinematic terms . The performances are flat as are the darkly comic lines which sort of sabotages the whole point of the film . In summary if you didn't like Wheatley's previous film DOWN TERRACE you probably won't like this one either