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  Review by Scott Adcock ★★★★ 13

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  After years of watching films about people from other cities all around the world...
  FINALLY a film about people from Birmingham! Englands second city and my home town!

  Sadly, I have a mild phobia about hearing my fellow Brummies talk on the TV or on the radio, I think its to do with local radio phone-ins, I also have a deep seated hatred of Caravan holidays...so I had to get over those to be able to watch Sightseers!

  It tells the tale of boring couple Chris and Tina on their week long holiday around the country, taking in such sights as the Keswick Pencil Museum. Boring except for the fact that they are serial killers!

  Its Natural Born Killers for…

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 9

  After having seen all his films now I think it is safe to say I really like Wheatley's filmmaking voice. After Down Terrace and Kill List, this pitch black comedy is once again set in Wheatley's Britain that seems to reside in a slightly off kilter reality.

  Wheatley paces the script, written by the lead actors, perfectly. The slow spiral of increasing madness and constantly shifting balance of power within this relationship is what makes this film such a great watch. It is as unpredictable as its protagonists, alternating between wonderfully mundane dialogue and extreme violence as if it's the most normal thing in the world.

  What I love about Wheatley's style is that he always seems to try and…

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  Review by Josiah Morgan ½ 17

  ben "i live in the 21st century and wobbling digital images around without purpose makes a good movie" wheatley returns, with this story of a couple floating 'invisibly' in the backgrounds of their own lives.... it's almost like they're..... sightseers.... which is why they go and... see some sights.... masterful analogy, genius semiotics.

  my favorite thing about sightseers is the juxtaposition between images and sound. very clever! i love hearing hip techno music over grey images because it really brings them to life!! i was very comfortable watching this movie because every time there was a cut, it was a shot i had seen before!!! i'm being an asshole.... but at least i didn't make sightseers.

  p.s. i'm a big…

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  Review by jourdain searles ★★★★

  “he’s not a person tina, he’s a daily mail reader”

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★

  Different, artistic, shocking, graphic, and quite funny; Sightseers is an odd little piece of work from director Ben Wheatley (A Field in England, Kill List). Basically, the film is about a relatively-new couple on a vacation, touring around England. I don't want to spoil much else, because Sightseers is heavily reliant on surprises and tonal shifts.

  My relatives picked this because they wanted to see a comedy about tourists. What they got was something much better, and definitely something different. Of course, most of them hated it.

  That's the best way to describe this one. Different. Not David Lynch different, this film is just off-kilter enough to have you squirming and laughing in equal measure. Tonal shifts abound, twisting and…

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  Review by {Todd} ★★½

  "Well that's fun isn't it?" -Tina,

  Dark.

  A couple goes on a relaxing trip and shit goes down. The highs in this are pretty high but the lows are pretty boring so it ends up just being average. I love the comic timing between Alice Lowe and Steve Oram but at times the script just felt so aimless and meandering that I got frustrated with it.

  Decent but flawed.

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 8

  Natural Born Killers minus the social criticism, the style and much funnier - after having so much trouble into their lives, a couple comprised of a shy woman and a compulsive man, go on a road trip but things will turn very dark when people start ruining their vacations.

  Once again I stumbled upon a movie I had seriously no knowledge about, though knowing its director Ben Wheatley, I was expecting something rather unique and immediately he delivers with one of the most recent dark comedies that not only has caught my attention thanks to its interesting story filled with some great twists and turns, but also had me laughing for its weird comedy.

  Alice Lowe and Steve Oram (who…

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  Review by The Reel House ★ 6

  This film fails on every conceivable level. 

  I’m already not a fan of Ben Wheatley’s filmography thus far (from Down Terrace to this) but this film really is somehow a new low. 

  It’s film that is just as vile as it is worthless. The film is trying so, so, so hard to be quirky and fun. It’s pandering on every level. Every character is so mind numbingly unfunny it’s hard to get through. 

  The film utilises shock humour whenever it can because that’s what Wheatley does best. I mean I’ve got one pro of the film and that’s the soundtrack which is pretty great but everything else is a missed opportunity. 

  I feel sorry for the dogs in this film 

  Recommend me some films ! 

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  Review by Fake Shemp

  See if he's got any sandwiches

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★★ 16

  However impossible it may be, Ben Wheatley's "Sightseers" is best seen not knowing what is about to unfold. An unsuspecting audience will think they are watching a very low-key, very English comedy about a couple on holiday, and, when the film turns its narrative corner, its shocks will be all the richer. Those shocks, however, define the film: "Sightseers" is a low-key, romantic comedy with a twist.

  The twist is one of grand (guignol) proportions and makes the film a pitch black comic delight. The couple of the title, sightseeing its way through the country side, deals with the people it runs into in interesting ways. Those ways will not be divulged in this review, but they are, at once,…

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  Review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★★★★ 5

  Finally! In hiring himself out and selecting material written by someone else - in this case underrated comic actors Steve Oram and Alice Lowe - Ben Wheatley has proved that he isn't just 'The Emperor's New Clothes' and that the genuine glimpses of talent he has previously shown can deliver, and how.

  Sightseers is essentially Badlands meets Nuts In May. A truly black comedy that is astonishingly laugh out loud funny and in equal measure astonishingly chilling.

  As befits the piece, Oram's performance is one of many hues as on appearance a rather dull everyman harbouring a deadly psychological imbalance ("I just wanna be feared and respected. That's not too much to ask of life is it?") But it is…

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  Review by Faethor Ferenczy ★★★½ 2

  Directed by Ben Wheatley, this black comedy is centred around a couple that decide to go on a remarkably boring sightseeing tour of the UK that include such delights as a tramway museum, a pencil museum, and the Ribblehead Viaduct.

  The woman is played by Alice Lowe and soon discovers that her boyfriend isn't all she thought. He is also a killer who takes great offence at the middle class, litterbugs, and Daily Mail readers. She goes along with it all as she wants him to love her, and even decides to turn killer herself in an effort to impress him.

  On the whole I enjoyed the film although the humour, the references, and all the little quirks are extremely…