Straightheads

Unfortunately, Straightheads is so concerned about racing to the finish line, it forgets about the who, what, where, when and why and renders the entire film impotent as a result. Straw Dogs, for example.Straightheads is as shallow as a puddle and forgoes anything approaching realism in favour of OTT violence and needless gore. ... Full Review

The Good Gillian Anderson is terrific as Alice, giving a performance that is by turns sexy (the nudity and sex scenes are surprisingly well handled), heartbreaking and terrifying. The Bad The film's biggest problem is that it tries to justify the horror of the revenge by showing you the initial attack not once, but twice, the second time in unnecessary detail. ... Full Review

Straightheads works fairly well as a low-key, brooding character piece free of any crude generical traits. Director Dan Reed wisely opts for an unintrusive style that allows us to observe the couple's descent into depravity without trying to heighten the action or pathos through stylised editing or an emotive score. ... Full Review

Straightheads (18, 79mins) is an unpleasant and unconvincing British rape-revenge thriller, in which Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer are savagely attacked by three yokels on a quiet country road, then go after said yokels with an enormous assault rifle. ... Full Article

What an ugly little movie. Closure (aka Straightheads in its native UK), a particularly disagreeable and unsatisfying revenge thriller, would barely warrant a mention, let alone a viewing, if it weren't for the presence here of Gillian Anderson, who, I'm... ... Full Article

Is Danny Dyer cornering the market in exploitational vengeance? No sooner has Nick Love's Outlaw exited cinemas than its Cockney star is back with another eye-for-an-eye thriller, this time as Adam, a security alarm installer who lives to regret accepting... ... Full Article