The events unfold with increasing horror, and the film conveys this stylishly and without the usual verbal hand-wringing. Throughout, Palmer’s visuals support an appropriately lean script. …a focus on human reactions makes this a surprisingly character-focused film for such a plot-driven story. What follows is a sort of smart, be-tartaned and much better made VERY BAD THINGS.
As convention and ominous music dictates, an accident occurs and the two men’s decisions spiral them further down a particularly dark rabbit hole. Jack Lowden plays Vaughan, taken hunting in the Highlands by his friend Marcus (Martin McCann) as a final hurrah before the birth of his first child. Few films, though, fill in those valleys and crags with both visual flair and characters as compelling as the landscapes they traverse.
Matt Palmer’s CALIBRE is not the first film to utilise the dramatic setting of Scotland’s Highlands to heighten its own thriller stylings, nor will it be the last.
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