Freight (2010)

Excellent, a Must See

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

ANOTHER MORAL HOLIDAY from the small island desperate to reinvent itself and it's Film IndustryWack wack WACK! British gangsta movie. It's pathetic not just because of the 'plot', the 'action' (neanderthal grunts of men 'fighting'), or the ugly cast (where the hell they get these ugly, ugly people from?) but the racial politics are disgusting… like really disgusting, enough to make one think this is an MI7 funded bout of psychological warfare.The hubby to be is Asian and get this, the Black guy in this psychological propaganda turkey is saved by the English noble gangstas from the evil East European thugs. This turkey of a film can only be of use for Cultural Studies and Guerellla Intellectuals to watch and dissect. It's pathetic to see how that dreary drizzle island that invented racism (as Bro Jessie Jackson said) reinvents itself and casts its 400 years of sin onto East Europeans. It's the East Europeans who abuse for the buck ( yea right, not the 400 years of that Welfar Queen's plantation history). Where where oh where were are the films about that era of enslavement, enslavement and neocolonialism? oh yea, made in the US. You want gangsta go to older films this turkey hasn't learned from made in the US, You want Trafficking films ? do the same.And yea, I was born and seasoned in South London and left for the USA, not just for the great gangsta movies they make with the great sound tracks.

Wanted to see this movie because I thought Bill Murray plays in it. It took me a while to understand that there's no Bill, but BILLY Murray. Oh, well... my first mistake. Continued watching it till the end, out of curiosity and because I had nothing else to do. My second BIG mistake. Just say no to this. Believe me when I tell you that there are better ways to spend one and a half hour of your life. You can watch paint dry, or something. (http://www.mirimgs.com/webcam/paint.html) You've been warned.(By the way, what does this mean: "Your review does not contain enough lines - the minimum length for reviews is 10 lines of text. Please see the guidelines. Attempts to pad the comment with junk words can result in your account being blocked from future submissions."?)

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning Gabe Taylor (Billy Murray) had a shady past in the British Secret Service, but now is focused on the wedding of his daughter Julie (Laura Aikman) and the up-coming reception. Then, his world is plunged into chaos when a portaloo is stolen, and he exchanges words with Cristi (Danny Midwinter) the leader of a gang of foreign criminals involved in human trafficking from Romania. When Cristi kidnaps his daughter and tries to force her into the sex trade, Gabe engages in a merciless battle of vengeance.On the face of it a typical, generic straight to DVD action film, Stuart St. Paul's story seems to have a genuinely human heart at it's core and seems to possess a social conscience, going to pains to highlight the human trafficking problem engulfing the UK at the moment, and how the statistics paint a grim picture. Anyone who's ever been to a seedy back street strip club might not be getting offered services that are entirely voluntary, and this certainly sets out to make them feel bad about it. Still, it goes about this in a formulaic, by the numbers way, with a cardboard, stereotypical Eastern European villain and flimsy supporting cast. But the always watchable Murray is a dynamic lead, the script is that bit more well written than usual and the attempts to highlight a social problem spreading the country are laudable and more than you'd usually get from this type of thing. ***

"Freight" was my choice of film, and like other reviewers my partner is now doubting my judgement. Recent British films have been reliable and solid, especially when backed by a decent cast and dynamic direction, and so we were looking forward to "Freight".Unfortunately, this film feels wrong right from the start. The first few scenes leave you unsettled. The pace is erratic and the plot disjointed - at about the half way point there are a couple of massive leaps between scenes where I was left feeling like I'd slept through some crucial bits.The script is truly dreadful - it's hard to blame the cast entirely for such childish acting when its genuinely hard to see what they could do with such appalling lines. Similarly the action - explosions happen randomly, people get shot without us even knowing who they are or what side they're on, and the fight scenes are handled so incredibly clumsily that you want to laugh, rather than wince.My partner and I felt that a bunch of 4 yr olds had been let loose with 2.5 million pounds. I love British films, and this is a genre that we do better than anybody else in the world, but a film like this only tarnishes that reputation. I will be filling my DVD cabinet with Gilbey instead.