Un Zievereir Excellent and surprisingly engaging for a slow two man play.It is a pleasure to see films made in such limited spaces with just two performers convincingly delivering the excellent script. The director manages to keep the viewer engaged and somehow the tension increases despite the potential limitations.Enjoyable throughout.

thecatcanwait Lush orchestral strings swing wide over moody panorama; and then in small we go, into the solitary Hide – or glorified shed – on the Fenland Marches where Roy Tunt is, laying out fastidiously, his paste sandwiches, binoculars, his twitcher credentials: "It's all go in here" he says to himself self-mockingly.He's gonna be an odd-bod is Roy Tunt; replete with mild-mannered, typical, quirky, English eccentricity; he'll amuse us for a while; and bemuse – or baffle – the dark taciturn northern stranger Dave who stumbles into his seemingly benign, nerdish birdy world: "I'll let you get on with your twatting" says Northern tyke Dave swigging back his bottle of hard stuff. Roy Tunt is not amused. He rebuffs the slight with snobby aplomb. He's posh see. Or at least more highly educated than "Drum & Bass raver Dave. Knows his who's from his whoms does Roy.The dialogue between the 2 is spun beguilingly – in terse, Pinteresque pauses and platitudes; all sorts of murky things being twitched and twatted at. Dave keeps having gory flashback visions to crows feasting on flesh – designed to make you think he's been up to something a bit nasty and bloody.When the switch came i was half expecting it but still unnerved. Especially at what Roy Tunt had been putting in those paste sandwiches (which Dave was hungrily gobbling up) The shocking shift into violence at the end seemed clamped on to add gory reward for the watching and waiting we've been patiently doing: ear chewing and brains being splattered kicked us into another genre of movie entirely. "Rather unseemly and unnecessary if you ask me" would have been a Roy Tunts cursory verdict with his bird-watcher hat on. Minus the sticks of dynamite under his cardigan vest.Alex McQueen did the whole posh twitchy twit thing off to a tee. I'd watch the film to watch him watching his birds.

c-cheetham It's not my scene to write reviews of films and such though I couldn't help but leave a comment here.In my opinion this film is a refreshing slap round the face for directors, actors, and viewers alike. The actors' screen presence is terrific, and accentuated by a fantastic script which is punctuated by a perfect amount of sub-script to let the viewer form their own opinion of where the film is going to go.Perfectly paced and beautifully shot in its own macabre way I recommend this film to anyone who wants to see how a film should be made, showing that you don't need to have a lot to give a lot.

guitar_pete I just watched this movie on Film4's British connection season and was surprised at how little recognition this film has received. The message board is bare, only 12 votes and no comments have been made so far, so I thought I'd make a deserved contribution.I'll be honest: I was expecting something fairly mediocre and cheap-looking but I was very pleasantly surprised. It didn't look cheap at all with great cinematography of the Suffolk countryside and the general colour and tone of the film was perfect and felt really authentic.Both actors do very well - especially considering the whole cast consists of just them. Phil Campbell's performance was occasionally quite wooden and unnecessarily clichéd as the 'mysterious dark stranger' character; but "occasionally" is a key word there, as he - with MacQueen - really shines toward the end. I was impressed with Alex MacQueen, especially as I've only ever seen him in very minor roles in various sitcoms such as "The Inbetweeners", but his character is complex and brilliantly pulled off.The film starts off well and captivatingly with great dialogue in the interaction between the two leads, with mystery and suspense surrounding the two as 'Roy Tunt' is clearly intimidated somewhat by Dave. Unfortunately, the film then becomes rather slow until the last half an hour or so - and the clips of the crows feasting on flesh become tedious after a while. But "The Hide" climaxes with a surprising twist and a great dénouement revealing why both characters find themselves in this remote mudflat. The very final scene is a particular favourite of mine, ending on a sharply shocking note.Overall, it's a decent little film, which is slow in parts but ultimately rewarding. A solid debut from Marek Losey.7.5/10