Though they are best friends and have known each other since boarding school, you can already see the cracks begin to form between them, as they both deal with the situation differently. What I do feel I need to say is in that inciting incident, Vaughn and Marcus do something terrible, and from that spawns an exploration of how people deal differently with such traumatic, life changing actions. I feel I should point out that I intend to not spoil anything about this film, as I think it is a far more effective film the less you know about it.
It was shocking, I didn’t see the moment coming and at that moment the film fully had my attention – an attention it then never lost.
When the moments plays-out and the terrible incident happens I remember it feeling like all of the air was suddenly and immediately pulled out from my body. Starting off, I knew something bad would happen two guys don’t go on a hunting trip in an isolated area and everything work out fine, but in the beginning, I was just enjoying the dynamic between two friends who in some ways reminded me of myself and my friend – but there was of course that lingering worry in the back of my mind that I couldn’t shake. That was enough to make me want to see the film and hopefully go onto support it, and I’m glad I did, because this film is genuinely good, and I promise that’s not me being biased. I simply knew it was a film made in my own back garden of Scotland. I knew nothing of what was to come in the film. But, an accident when out hunting sets in motion events that will permanently change both their lives forever, and will truly test what type of people they really are.
Two lifelong friends, Vaughn – played by Jack Lowden – and Marcus – played by Martin McCann – head up to an isolated part of the Scottish Highlands for a weekend hunting trip and the chance to catch up after not seeing each other for a wee while. Anyway, let’s stop waffling on with this introduction and get to the actual review, and see what it is about this Netflix original that makes it worth talking about in a positive manner, shall we. I found myself pulled in by the friendly characters and subsequently gripped by the inciting incident that sets in motion actions and outcomes that shocked me and had me fully attentive right up until the very end. The film is small in scope, simple in concept and really well executed. Calibre, written and directed by Matt Palmer, is not only a strong directorial debut from Mr Palmer, but also offers something I haven’t experienced in quite some time a Netflix original film that is actually good and worth talking about.
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