TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

davideo-2 STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning Gabe Taylor (Billy Murray) had a shady past in the British Secret Service, but now is focused on the wedding of his daughter Julie (Laura Aikman) and the up-coming reception. Then, his world is plunged into chaos when a portaloo is stolen, and he exchanges words with Cristi (Danny Midwinter) the leader of a gang of foreign criminals involved in human trafficking from Romania. When Cristi kidnaps his daughter and tries to force her into the sex trade, Gabe engages in a merciless battle of vengeance.On the face of it a typical, generic straight to DVD action film, Stuart St. Paul's story seems to have a genuinely human heart at it's core and seems to possess a social conscience, going to pains to highlight the human trafficking problem engulfing the UK at the moment, and how the statistics paint a grim picture. Anyone who's ever been to a seedy back street strip club might not be getting offered services that are entirely voluntary, and this certainly sets out to make them feel bad about it. Still, it goes about this in a formulaic, by the numbers way, with a cardboard, stereotypical Eastern European villain and flimsy supporting cast. But the always watchable Murray is a dynamic lead, the script is that bit more well written than usual and the attempts to highlight a social problem spreading the country are laudable and more than you'd usually get from this type of thing. ***

rickmarsden "Freight" was my choice of film, and like other reviewers my partner is now doubting my judgement. Recent British films have been reliable and solid, especially when backed by a decent cast and dynamic direction, and so we were looking forward to "Freight".Unfortunately, this film feels wrong right from the start. The first few scenes leave you unsettled. The pace is erratic and the plot disjointed - at about the half way point there are a couple of massive leaps between scenes where I was left feeling like I'd slept through some crucial bits.The script is truly dreadful - it's hard to blame the cast entirely for such childish acting when its genuinely hard to see what they could do with such appalling lines. Similarly the action - explosions happen randomly, people get shot without us even knowing who they are or what side they're on, and the fight scenes are handled so incredibly clumsily that you want to laugh, rather than wince.My partner and I felt that a bunch of 4 yr olds had been let loose with 2.5 million pounds. I love British films, and this is a genre that we do better than anybody else in the world, but a film like this only tarnishes that reputation. I will be filling my DVD cabinet with Gilbey instead.

mysteryman7162 I wanted to like this movie it's British and so am I. It's writer and director are obviously alarmed at the criminal elements flooding in the U.K. and so am I. So why didn't I like it? Firstly the acting, over the top clichéd Eastern European accents by British actors ( I know their Brits because of all the commercials I've seen them in). The actual "stars" were pretty poor to I really think they wanted a leading man to be like Bob Hoskins in "The Long Good Friday" but it just didn't work. Secondly the plot was so full of holes it must have resembled a teabag.I really can't be bothered to list them all as it would take as long as the 88 minutes I spent watching this stink bomb. Finally the action and amount of killings were at a cartoon like level and never a policeman in the area? The UK isn't this violent it is a violent place but not in the way portrayed here.The only plus for this film is that it didn't have Danny Dyer in it that was the only reason I decided to watch it. If your looking for a good British gangster movie, look elsewhere.

asdfen-1 The foremost question I ask myself after I am done watching movie is - was I entertained? Regarding the movie Freight the answer is no.The action and effects were sub par, the plot was non existent save damsel in distress sort of gibberish. None of the actors stood out enough to save me from severe boredom.Basically nothing stood out in this film. The drama did not appeal to my good nature. I was not moved by tears of Russian/Romanian prostitutes and their unfortunate husbands. The action scenes seems like something from days long gone without flash grandeur or anything remotely memorable. The plot - was focused on something I know I have seen thousand times before more specifically illegal aliens problem. I guess US has Mexicans and Cubans and this movie tries to show that UK's problem with influx of cheap prostitutes from Eastern Europe is no less of a problem.I would not recommend this movie to anyone other than British nationals to whom this movie may appeal as there is an happy end!