Good film, glad I watched it as not every netflix movie is worth a look but this one is.

As I was watching Calibre, I found myself growing both impressed with the setup and desperate in my hope that it would not stumble into the same pitfall that most thrillers do, which is the eye-rolling plot convenience of characters making dumb decisions. Thankfully, as you can probably tell by rating, this movie pleasantly surprised me! The characters act realistically, and every single nail-biting moment feels earned within the context of the story. Writer/director Matt Palmer deserves high amounts of praise for his attention to detail and tight storytelling. The thematic content in this movie is pretty heavy, but it doesn't feel excessive or exploitative in any way. In simpler terms, this movie takes an incredibly solid story setup and never once fumbles with the follow-through. My only gripe keeping it from a perfect score is that I didn't necessarily feel anything special in regards to the cinematography or the score (although I will note that the lack of music in certain scenes was an inspired choice). Overall, it's a tense movie with sobering content that will most likely leave you questioning what you might have done differently in such a scenario but wholly satisfied with what you saw.

Cool flick. All about two best friends getting together to go hunting up in the Scottish Highlands, so they stop at a tiny little village get a room for a few nights then proceed to get heavily intoxicated and party with the locals. Next morning, out hunting, one with an extreme hangover the other high on cocaine to fight the hangover, spot a deer, and well there's a slight mishap, and one bad decision leads to a whole bunch of bad decisions, and dealing with the local folk in town seems to be a dangerous option. Really cool intense acting, and another reason not to go into the woods!! Filmbufftim on FB