Sightseers Reviews
Flix Capacitor
Essentially a one-joke film, your ability to enjoy Sightseers will depend on how funny you find the idea of a pair of humdrum Brummies turning a damp caravan holiday into a bloody killing spree.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Fan The Fire
Director Ben Wheatley's uncompromising style fits the deadpan humour perfectly but despite the movie's comic tones, the characters are still so unappealing that the movie's overall nature proves restrictive.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Financial Times
There are a few laughs; a few wise nods. But before the end fatigue arrives and doesn't go away.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Reel Film Reviews
Wheatley has infused much of the film's midsection with a meandering feel that only grows more and more problematic as time progresses.
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| Original Score: 2/4
AV Club
The film proceeds with a lazy, sketch-like feel that makes more sense after considering that these characters began on stage; the material was reconceived as a movie after a TV pilot failed to ignite.
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| Original Score: C-
Movie Talk
For all the miles its nerdy murderers rack up in their caravan, Sightseers doesn't really go anywhere.
Oregonian
It's neither grounded enough to be genuinely horrifying nor over the top enough to be nastily fun.
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| Original Score: C+
Top CriticA morose, unsettling blend of pathology for sport and murder for laughs.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Lowe and Oram have been living with these characters for years, and it shows. The acting is very funny and well-observed.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Badass Digest
SIGHTSEERS is a wickedly funny, brutal little film, one with crushed skulls and huge laughs and a dreadfully clever use of Gloria Jones' original version of "Tainted Love."
The Aristocrat
The 'romantic comedy' is possibly the most lifeless of all modern genres and Sightseers gives it a literal blood transfusion. Cultdom awaits.
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| Original Score: 4/5
We Got This Covered
Ben Wheatley's latest film delivers horror in the most unexpected ways, but that wouldn't be possible without a darkly enjoyable script and delightfully unsettling performances by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram.
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| Original Score: 8/10
HeyUGuys
Sightseers achieves the relatively rare feat of striking the right balance between sharply observed characterisation and jet black humour that takes it beyond the absurd.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Irish Times
Director Ben Wheatley invests the material with a uniquely unhinged druidic tone that falls somewhere between Hammer evil and Nuts in May's celebration of all things naff.
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| Original Score: 5/5
...Merciless and unforgiving at every turn, thoroughly British, creepy and beautiful even in the gloriously demented details.
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| Original Score: B+
Moviedex
Think Natural Born Killers set in Cornwall. Only much, much funnier.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Threat
Wheatley remains a master of infusing the mundane with overtones of dread.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Ooh Tray
The result is something like a heterosexual Carry On film.
The Skinny
Sightseers plays out like a trainspotters' Badlands.
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| Original Score: 4/5
