Review of Sightseers (2012) by Vicci O — 03 Jul 2015

I didn't like Kill List, which I thought to be trite, excessive and unoriginal, but Sightseers is a great film. In Kill List, the director had tried to drive home the idea that those who claim themselves to be on a sabbatical are just murderers, really.

But the idea couldn't come alive in Kill List because the writing was too poor and inadequate. Sightseers, on the other hand, was supplemented with a fantastically detailed script. It might even have made a case for a furious critique of modern English social moores, had it not been so absorbed with its two ridiculous characters.