Travellers

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Travellers go head to head with City boys in this cruddy British thriller, which might shift units on DVD, says Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 January 2011

Travellers
Production year: 2011
Country: UK
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 88 mins
Directors: Kris McManus
Cast: Alex Edwards, Charley Boorman, Dean Jagger, Shane Sweeney, Tom Geoffrey
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A potentially interesting idea for a lo-fi British Deliverance-style thriller is badly let down by very slack acting and dialogue, topped off with humourless sentimentalism. A bunch of arrogant city boys are zooming around the countryside on their motorbikes and (improbably) decide to camp in a field, in which they find a caravan belonging to Irish travellers. One scrawls bigoted graffiti all over it, and then they find themselves in a terrifying confrontation with its owners. Basically, writer-director Kris McManus is hamstrung by his evident need to make the Travellers the scary bad guys but then make them the sympathetic good guys; and there is a bit of dodgy Guy Ritchie-style hero-worship of their skills at bare knuckle boxing. There may well be more than enough fans of the underground fight scene to shift DVD units of this film. But the performances and script are baffling, verging on the risible.