18 out of 20 people found the following review helpful:

Updating the American Gothic

GreenwichPaul from , 25th May, 2006

Undertow is a fascinating if flawed film that retreads the same ground as the classic 'Night of the Hunter'.

Slow paced and a step removed from reality this has echoes of producer Terence Malick's magnificent 'Badlands' with it langorous atmosphere and detached voiceover.

Ultimately the film never hits the same heights as either of the aforementioned films but it is brave enough to aspire to meaningfulness and is, in its own rights, an enjoyable film.

Director Green populates his film with redneck gothic and unrealistic poetic dialogue so there is plenty here for fans of American though less for a mainstream audience

Intriguing

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9 out of 12 people found the following review helpful:

oh dear dear !!!!!!

A Customer from Scotland, 12th May, 2006

O.M.G I cant actually believed i watched such a pile of crap, sh'' acting dire story, well there is none, all in all sh'' film, please and i emphasise please! dont waste your time, not even brit actor Jamie Bell could save this film from the hole it crawled out of. It didnt give me the option of putting no stars.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

didn't get into it

A Customer from south wales, 7th July, 2007

only watched 5 mins before falling asleep so i didn't bother to watch the rest!!

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Cut and Shut

DivaDebs from Berwickshire, 15th June, 2006

This film starts out so well. The photography is beautiful and atmospheric. The acting is good (Jamie Bell's accent is perfect) and the storyline has great potential... then... well, I think the writer must have gone off on holiday and left the second half of the film to the Tea Boy to write.

The storyline stumbles from one scene to the next, and I lost all empathy for the characters, not really caring what happened next.

To me, it was a 'cut and shut' movie. The first half - an interesting movie with potential and the second half a completely different movie with no point and little flair.

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UNDERTOW

Humbug from from Birmingham, 30th July, 2009

VERT GOOD FILM GREAT YOUNG ACTORS, A BIT STRANGE IN PARTS

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Great, if not widely seen movie...

Chrisbird from , 3rd July, 2009

In the couple of years after 'Billy Elliot', Jamie Bell slowly and quietly established himself as more than a flash-in-the-pan character actor. This is a prime example of this as Bell takes on the lead role as the elder of two brothers living with their father, well below the poverty line in the deepest south. Evil Uncle (Josh Lucas) arrives looking for some presumably valuable family artifacts, and the boys flee for their lives. Touching, frightening and engaging throughout, this is well worth a watch.

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A Customer from Stirling, 15th April, 2009

Slow paced but compelling viewing all the same. It was a very unusual film just following the troubled life of 2 youngsters and how things turn for the worst when their uncle shows up. Quirky but enjoyable.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Undertow

A Customer from Falkirk, 27th February, 2009

HAD to turn this off

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