A Lonely Place To Die
Starring: Melissa George, Ed Speleers, Eammon Walker, Sean Harris, Alex Newman, Karel Roden
Director: Julian Gilbey
Rating: 3.5/5
The likes of The Rise of the Footsoldier have already made director Julian Gilbey one to watch out for and he is back with his new movie A Lonely Place To Die.
The movie follows a group of five mountaineers who are climbing in the remote Scottish Highlands when they make a horrific discovery: a young girl buried in a small chamber, with only a small air pipe to the surface keeping her alive.
She is terrified, dehydrated and half-starved. Deciding they must get her to safety, the group embark on a dangerous and nerve-racking descent.
Unwittingly, they’ve taken charge of a valuable bounty and are being hunted down by the girl’s ruthless kidnappers, who have everything at stake and nothing to lose.
This is one of the best British independent movies that I have watched all year - and it totally was not the movie that I was expecting.
This is half mountain drama half kidnap movie that has twist and turns as well as plenty of excitement and menace at every turn.
Julian Gilbey really is a director that we should all be keeping an eye on as he manages to avoid all the pit falls and clichés that can come with a movie such as this - it really was a very exciting ride.
Set this to the stunning backdrop of the Scottish Highlands, some of the cinematography is simply superb, and you can overlook some of the lack of character development.
That would be my only criticism of this movie is some of the supporting characters are a little two dimensional but that really doesn’t hinder the movie.
Melissa George puts in a terrific lead performance and it’s great to see an actress given such a strong and demanding role such as this.
This is also something new for Ed Speleers, of Eragon fame, and he really shows that he can handle the action movie.
This is an engrossing movie with many storylines but Gilbey keeps all of that very clear and the story never descends into chaos or loses it tension or edge.
A Lonely Place to Die is out on DVD & Blu-Ray now
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw