Bad Day for the Cut

Fun, violent. Dark and quirky like most Irish movies.

An excellent 'revenge' movie that bottles it at the end. I suspect this was intended to provide a high-brow type of ending where it is up to us to finish the movie in our heads. Well, the truth is, we prefer the film to wrap things up a bit better - otherwise there's so many loose ends. I think with an extra 10-20 seconds we could have had a resolution that avenged Bartosz as well and allowed his sister to escape the horror of it all. Stop trying to be 'arty' and tell COMPLETE story - start, middle, end.

Not what we expected, but kept moving along at good pace. Lots of action, and violence... dark humour at times.

A well constructed revenge movie that by the end has a man discovering more about himself than the events leading up to his actions.

Superb slow burning vengeance thriller, with a great mystery/thriller behind it. Yes, you have to suspend disbelief a little, but it allows a superb tension which is added to by the unlikelihood of the main protagonist in his role.

this was good - as bad as this sounds, i wished it was a little less PG when it came to the violence; seemed like every time a fight broke out the camera was always focused somewhere else. it's a revenge film - hard to feel like justice was served when you don't actually see anything happen.

Right from the start I wanted to see what would happen next. It was the cinematic version of a page-turner. And what came next, then next, then next… did not disappoint. The urge for vengeance and the immediate satisfaction of it become overpowered by the relentlessness and senselessness of revenge. A powerful message embedded in an entertaining film.

The antagonist is a sinister piece of work, and the story is one that slowly untangles a history that puts a great protagonist into a situation he knows nothing about, but he comes to the fore as a force to be reckoned with. Woe to the last baddies standing. Highly effective thriller.

Decent revenge thriller set in Northern Ireland hits a lot of the usual beats but plays them well. It's also an unsubtle allegory for the futile cycles of violence that plague the province. Nigel O'Neill is particularly effective as the taciturn farmer driven to violence and who finds his world slowly torn apart as events spiral out of control.

Most of this is good, just in places it's a bit weak. The action scenes are a little audience friendly and the music is awful, then again it's an Irish film, countryside, chickens, wannabe hard men, tools, beer and a thick accent that it's easy to work out. Plenty of prediction but a decent watch.