Too often, however, Jobson seems content to hit the pause button on the action to allow his characters to speechify, with Scott's Alistair much given to clunky-sounding rants on class and power.

| Nov 22, 2020

The film has great visual flair, but the story is a heavy-handed slice of modern melodrama that would have made Dickens blush.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2009

A series of illogical twists derails a chase movie that ends in the unfortunate metaphor of an empty box.

| Jun 16, 2009

It is tightly constructed and successfully portrays the underlying tension between Edinburgh's newly prosperous and those who never had anything and never will.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2009

Energetic direction and a promising central performance counteract the modest budget and some less-than-convincing plot elements.

| Jun 12, 2009

Genuinely thrilling urban chase. The tension just keeps ratcheting up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2009

A seemingly self-mocking jumble of sour literary, cinematic, class and genre affectations.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 12, 2009

A film featuring free-running that makes this most bizarre of extreme pursuits appear positively pedestrian.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 12, 2009

The look of the film is unpolished and several of the supporting performances are poor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Given that it's basically one big chase, there's something awfully snoozy about this latest from Richard Jobson - a sort of cut-price, Scottish-set Hostel (a mountain bothy, maybe?).

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2009

This is shocking, it suggests David Fincher's The Game shot by crackheads running around with cheap DV cameras.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Social commentary with a video game mentality. Intriguing, if not entirely successful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Tension and mystery are both constants throughout this very decent indie movie, which could have easily become a cult classic in future years if Sean's two pursuers were better handled by the script.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Caught between wanting to make a bold statement and deliver edge of the seat thrills, New Town Killers is a curious mix.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Racing from lawless tenement to loveless townhouse, it's grittier and gutsier than the cut-price Running Man clone it threatens to become, a spiky little speedball of caustic social commentary and guerrilla thrills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2009

So depressing, life-sapping and unrelentingly nihilistic, words have yet to be invented to convey the sheer awfulness of this so-called thriller. A contender for worst film of 2009.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 12, 2009

The gloomy back streets and alleyways of Edinburgh are the perfect setting for this heart-in-mouth thriller. The plot is frantic and taut and keeps you gripped until the final credits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2009

A watchable and well acted, if frequently ridiculous thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Brutal and contrived, this Scottish thriller just makes too little sense to hold our attention. It may be filmed with a lot of style, but it's also pretentious, full of cliches and nearly deafening.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 12, 2009

This is more ambitious than the majority of dreary low-budget Brit flicks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2009