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Fantastic!

Best movie ever!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I was very surprised that every review wasn't along the lines of that of carliebseattle. This is close to being the worst movie I've ever seen. No plot - everything happens by happenstance. No exploration of character to glean the roots of the ongoing psychopathy (which, as this movie suggests, is apparently contagious). Most of what is intended to be comedy is not in the least humorous. There is a little bit of twisted sexual humour, but it's like giving a handful of popcorn to someone who hasn't eaten for three weeks. I've seen a lot of bad movies, but not many like this - ones so bad that it makes you angry you wasted your time watching it. The surprise ending is slightly satisfying, but doesn't come close to making up for the boring and misguided buildup. I'm only giving it a one out of ten because I'm not allowed to give it a zero rating. Warning - Don't be misled by the reviewer who claimed that you would like this if you loved Harold and Maude. You wouldn't.

In my country there exists a term that literally translates as "disaster tourists" and it refers to irritating people that deliberate visit places where tragic accidents have occurred or even are occurring at the moment. The protagonist couple in "Sightseers" somehow reminded me of this, except that they give a whole new dimension to the term as it is them causing the tragic accidents deliberately! Tina is a 34-year-old naive and introvert woman who still lives with her dominant mother who blames her for the violent accidental death of their dog Poppy (as a result of a nasty knitting incident). But this is all about to change since Tina met and fell in love with Chris. He's a devoted caravan-tourist and invites Tina for a romantic vacation across all the sightseeing highlights in Yorkshire, including the spectacular tram and pencil museum. Quite early during the trip already, however, Chris turns out to be a sociopath murderer who slays people for banal reasons like littering a national monument site or plain simple pompous behavior. When Tina discovers Chris peculiar habits, she doesn't immediately disapprove but reacts rather open-minded and curious. "Sightseers" isn't a very original movie, as it bears quite a bit of resemblance to many other and older movies, like for example "Very Bad Things" or John Waters' "Serial Mom", but the main difference here is that this is a prototypic British movie and thus are the main characters dry and cynical and the humor in the script pitch black and offensive. The first half of "Sightseers" is fresh, inventive and extremely entertaining, but the film quickly becomes repetitive and predictable. As the climax approaches, the chemistry between the two lead characters has entirely vanished and the dialogs became dull and overlong. The final twist nevertheless still turned a sardonic smile on my face, but it was too late to save the overall film. Even though I'm an avid horror fanatic, I found "Sightseers" unnecessarily gory and gratuitous. In fact, the absolute best thing about the film is inarguably the photography of the beautiful British countryside and the aptly chosen sober soundtrack ("Tainted Love", anyone?). "Sightseers" received a lot of extra – undeserved – attention because it's directed by the new British prodigy Ben Wheatley. He became giant thanks to the supposedly terrific "Kill List" (which I haven't seen yet)

I you have enough time to waste I will say: go ahead and watch this. I was not impressed at all and the only thing that kept me watching until the end was the British humor that is well known. The movie is absurd, it tries to be funny but it fails sometimes. It tries to be normal, but it definitely isn't normal and what the story suggests is quite very Utopian. The characters are very far away from the society and if the movie would have been a little bit more funnier, maybe, just maybe, we would have had a better vision about this one.Maybe it's just my opinion but I will definitely not want to watch something like this again.

I didn't like this film at all. It had no plot. No substance. No laughs. It was pointless.This wasn't a weird film, it was just plain silly and as immature as pulling the wings off a fly.I'd rather watch Percy Jackson again, than this pile of steaming cow-dung.If you want to see middle-of-nowhere, possibly in-bred, locals only, stereotyping then watch "The League of Gentleman" UK TV series.Being from the North West of England not that far from Yorkshire, I might be a just little bit biased. Though I can honestly say I will not ever consider recommending this film to anyone with half a brain, and a proper sense-of-humour.If you've read this far then thank you. I hope I have saved you some time and money by pleading with you to not see this dire film.