Wonderful character development!

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Four friends decide to hop on their bikes and go travelling. They decide to camp in a field. Andy spots a caravan and starts kicking at it. He also breaks the back window and reaches in to get a can of spray paint. He spray paints the words Pity Scum on the caravan. He then looks in the back window and sees what seems to be a dead body. Turns out not being a dead body but a female who is asleep. She must of been wearing ear plugs (too funny). She never heard the kicks or the sound of breaking glass.And it all goes downhill from there. The good guys are chased by the bad guys. Then one of the good guys becomes a bad guy. And some of the bad guys become friends with the good guys and so forth.I got bored very quickly with this movie. Please do not waste your time watching this movie.

I am not really sure what this film sets out to achieve here. Within the genre this story has been told a million times and a million times it has been told better than here. The plot is all over the place and the main protagonists are hard to watch, maybe it's the poor script or the risible way in which it is delivered...or maybe it's just because I am not a 12 year old. The only surprising thing about this movie is that those stalwarts of useless films do not appear in it, neither Danny Dire (sic) nor Vinnie Jones crop up anywhere, but you half expect them to at any moment with some rather large doses of scene chewing that they excel at. The film is neither gritty nor entertaining and offers little, I defy anyone to sit and watch this tripe and honestly say they have not...as I have just done...wasted a chunk of an evening. Utter PAP.

having enquired how much this film cost to make, I am amazed it got onto the screen at all.If Kris McManus can make a film like this on his budget, what does the future hold?? Yep, it was a bit wobbly at the start, but the cameo appearance of Charlie Boorman can't have hurt, a gesture for which I admire him, there can't have been much money in it for him! Some of the scenes were so absorbing that you completely forgot what the quality lacked. Violent, yes, but not gratuitously so. I found the screenplay excellent, and rather more convincing than some of the high budget, convoluted stuff you can see. I thought the atmosphere of the film was brilliantly achieved. The threatening seediness of the bare knuckle boxing scene had me on the edge of my seat. The hairs stood up on my neck when the "Pikeys" appeared to do justice to the bikers who had defaced their caravan. Slow start perhaps, but it amply repays perseverance. The camera quality wasn't that great, but the cameraman had enough skill to compensate to a large degree.To my great surprise, I was really impressed.

For the first 15 or 20 minutes this looked every inch a no budget, student project. If you were watching it on DVD or TV you might even give up on it. Don't.The film improves dramatically as it goes on.It adds tension, better characterisation and a reasonable slice of horror too.There is a cracking bare knuckle fight scene, something that no film about travellers would seem to be without. The performances are mixed, but certainly most of the characters are believable, hinting at a depth beyond their on screen actions. On the balance a film worth watching. Give it a go, but stick with it!