Rent Trespass Against Us (2016)

Watchable state-funded Brit film all about a gypsy caravan camp - Trespass Against Us review by PV

This is a TYPICAL UK state-funded film (money from the taxpayer, the BFI, Film4, the lottery). It focuses on a supposed ethnic minority, the gypsies or travellers or Romany if you prefer (interesting to hear the dialect and even the Romany language sometimes in this film).

Now, it's all well-acted with a class cast, esp Rory Kinnear as a copper, and the story has pace (though the ending disappointing).

However, the behaviour of the 'travellers' made me hate them.

And I suppose that is the crux here: if you're a Gorgie (non-gypsy) then your feeling about this film will depend on your experience with these people in your life.

Now, as a kid there were gypsies around sometimes, ripping homeowners in the suburbs off by tarmacking their drives badly, stealing lead from roofs as scrap, and their gypsy kids would chase local boys and push them off their bikes - steal the bikes and resell em, keep em or sell em for scrap. I was chased once. I always avoided gypsy camps and their rough criminal kids.

Now, if your image of gypsies is that they're a quaint ethnic minority (as if) selling lucky heather, then fine. But watch this film to realise the days of painted caravans are long gone.

Watchable anyway. 2.5 stars rounded up.

But be warned, dogs so get hurt in this film (not really - but in the story - and some may find that hard to watch).

Even though it has an incredible cast, this film was clichéd, predictable & completely unengrossing - Trespass Against Us review by TB

Back in the time when Michael Fassbender was producing a pretty much flawless catalogue of films (excluding Haywire, the less said about that, the better,) this was an interesting film. A micro-budget film about a family of gypsies, the older father wanting to control & mold his son into his image; the son looking in horror at the life he currently is living and a refusal to allow his children to go down that same path. Add into the mix an incredible cast and it looked like this was going to be something very special.

However, I just did not like this film at all. It starts off in an interesting way, showing Fassbender's character Chad taking part in a police chase after a robbery. After losing the police, he then drives back to the campsite he lives at and we are introduced to Colby, the patriarch and Chad's father. Colby is ruthless, feared and dangerous. But it is clear that soon he will start to try to exert more control over not only Chad but also his children as well. But none of it was that interesting, which is staggering considering the powerhouse of talent here.

You can see what will happen a mile away and whilst there is nothing wrong with clichés when they're done well, here I just didn't care. I absolutely do not want to and take no pleasure in slating particularly small-budget and first time films, but this could have been so much more.

Don't waste your precious time - Trespass Against Us review by DW

Using a word frequently used in this film .... it's "f…ing” shite!  Unfortunately the review must be between 100 and 4000 characters. So I must repeat it is absolute shite. I recommend that you do not waste a valuable rental on this rubbish.