Style points for the striking scenery and setting. Palmer reaches for that twist from the conventional way these narratives are handled, but gives away his sympathies too quickly, shows his hand too openly. It achieves pulse-pounding only once, and rarely strays from the predictable path set for it. Matt Palmer’s film is an engrossing but unsurprising swirl of self-preservation instincts, grief, panic and terror.
Do these two soft city boys have the nerve for this? Are they cagey enough? What will trip them up?Įvery question is double-edged, every suspicion underlined with menace. The suspense comes with every encounter with a villager, friendly or unfriendly. “Calibre” follows the well-worn path of such tales, the decisive man more in touch with his primitive side, the smarter, more civilized one caught in this trap with him.Īnd trap it is, because getting out of this hole is going to be as unhurried and tricky as the locals can make it. And one of them has neither the stomach nor the nerve for it. Logan and Angus ( Tony Curran, George Anton) are just trying to be friendly, just wanting to share stalking stories, hold forth about the sorry state of the local economy. Not in villages where everybody knows everybody else’s business, outsiders’ goings and comings, not when the locals love talking about hunting and bloody rare venison is the diner’s choice. But carrying on as if nothing’s happened is going to be tricky. People who don’t talk, don’t get caught - or so the old saying goes. Is Marcus the one thinking clearly, or is Vaughn? Can they save each other? Should they? In this story, accidents lead to escalations and the hopeless effort to hide the crime. Sentient, sensitive people go to pieces when their actions, even accidental, take a life.
“Calibre” is one of those “Deliverance/Straw Dogs” thrillers about men softened by civilization, out to prove themselves in the wild and tested in ways they never imagined.īecause Vaughn isn’t a good shot. Nothing like heading into the woods hungover, having made enemies of armed, woods-wise locals. “It’s your funeral” should scare them off. Which of course means a near bar-fight over local lasses. Marcus ( Martin McCann of “Lost in London”) is there to ensure they have a good time in Culcurran. Vaughn ( Jack Lowden of “Dunkirk”) isn’t really into it, but he goes along for “stalking,” as the locals call it. “Reckon you can take down a deer? The trick is, to put a check on your emotions and let instinct kick in.” The lads leave the city for a hunting trip in the Scottish highlands and Marcus loads his 90s Jeep Cherokee for action. Marcus, his pal, figures he knows just the thing for “your last free weekend.”
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