Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

supermaggie I really loved this movie (and I still do, but)– just trust your own feelings about the character/story and don't turn on the audio commentary. It will ruin the movie for you since it makes perfectly clear that Philip Ridley clearly does not understand the character he is trying to portray, Ridley clearly belongs to the crowd that make Jaime's life a living hell. I don't argue that we all are bad, because we all are humans and mankind is a disgusting, brutal, reckless creation, but this does not mean that Jamie is a bad guy like the others. This is making the victim the bad guy. Nothing that Jamie does (especially nothing that he does by his own will/unmotivated by others or the circumstances) is nearly as mean as the people bullying him because of something he did not choose. And it is not in the last second that Jamie „realizes" that the world is beautiful, unlucky persons like Jamie are absolutely aware that life CAN be beautiful – just not for them, that is for people who are screwed from their birth on, by the wrong looks, the wrong parents, the wrong genes, curses that allow you not a single chance etc. . And it is people like Philip Ridley who do not understand them at all and are trying to turn them bad in order to have a justification for their bad luck – shame on you, Mr. Ridley (the only person who is definitely heartless is you, Philip Ridley). What is true, though, is that the world is not fair at all, and people like Philip Ridley with obviously better luck and little understanding of what it means to live on the other side support this situation. And it is true that Jamie wants to die, but actually what he really wants is (like he says) to be happy, be normal, have a chance to a normal happy life like other people with better luck, just: he does not get this chance, never, and nothing Jamie has ever done or will ever do will justify that HE is denied this chance. He is NOT the bad guy and with nothing does he deserve his fate, it is unfair and turning him into a „demon" does not change/justify this, Mr. Ridley, live with it and don't make it worse. And since Jamie is ever denied any chance, the only salvation (from his unlucky fate) he can get is dying, but it is not what he truly wants, he just won't ever get anything else. Maybe Mr. Ridley should rather make films about pretty teens partying all night, looks like this is the world he knows something about instead of being dialectic and doing victims of this deeply unfair world further injustice (in order to come to grips with the injustice, but you can't, that's the point about injustice, it just is unjust, no need to blame the victim).

bunja-77202 (spoiler) the message in this movie was totally Unclear to me "sometimes you have to see the dark before you can see the light/stars something like that , OK all i saw was someone with schizophrenic type visions ,who committed a horrific murder and did not deserve the ( spoiler) happiness at the end, i mean there was really good acting in this movie and up until the point where the rent boy was killed i was enjoying it, then it turned into a pile of garbage. because i completely lost respect for Jamie after that. i gained no life changing experience from this as some others did, all i learned was that brutal killers have beautiful souls-go figure.

Sindre Kaspersen English screenwriter, author and director Philip Ridley's third feature film which he wrote, premiered at the 9th London Fright Fest Film Festival in 2009, was shot on locations in London, England and is a United Kingdom production which was produced by producers Pippa Cross and Richard Raymond. It tells the story about a photographer named Jaime Morgan who lives with his mother in an area of London where the residents are disturbed by a terrorizing gang of youths who are wearing hoods. Jaime spends some of his time with his 17-year-old nephew named Lee and his older brother who runs a studio, but Jaime is somewhat alienated due to a distinct mark in his face and disenchanted by the world he lives in. One day he notices a picture of a model named Tia whom he takes a liking to, but then something happens.Distinctly and finely directed by British filmmaker Philip Ridley, this finely paced fictional tale which is narrated mostly from the protagonist's point of view, draws a instantly intriguing and heartrending portrayal of a shy man with a heart-shaped birthmark across his left eye who after beginning to see strange skeleton-like faces in his photographs and being attacked by a gang whilst on his way home with his mother, is contacted by a man who offers him a life-altering deal. While notable for it's colorful and atmospheric milieu depictions, sterling production design by production designer Ruby Eyres, cinematography by cinematographer Matt Gray, make up by make-up artist Jaqueline Fowler and use of light, this character-driven story depicts an in-depth study of character and contains a great score by English composer David Julyan.This modestly romantic and horror-ish drama which is set in East London, England in the late 2000s and where a man who wishes to become "normal" misses his father and has a feeling of living parallel lives, is impelled and reinforced by it's fragmented narrative structure, substantial character development, philosophical undertones, various characters and the fine acting performances by English actor Jim Sturgees and French actress Clémence Poséy. A dramatic, surreal, existentialistic and atypical thriller which for the exception of a few scenes which becomes a bit comical and without exaggerating use of violence, manages to create a significant sense of horror.

Matti-Man I really liked the idea of a horror movie set in East London - where, coincidentally, I live. Seeing Jim Sturgess' character Jamie mooching around streets that I walk on my way to work was a lot of fun. And Philip Ridley attempts to do something different with the genre, trying to mix supernatural and social conscience. It kind of almost works, but like so many movies in this subject-space, it all goes a bit to hell-in-a-handbasket in the final reel.For me the ending is too much of a cop-out. I was hoping Ridley was going to come up with a better solution to the story than what we got. Very disappointing for the "demons" to be just hoodie, ASBO thugs after all. So I was left thinking that Papa B and Belle were just figments of Jamie's imagination. Now maybe that wasn't what Ridley was trying to put over, but that was what I was getting.What we're left with is a Scooby-Doo type story, where the demons of Bethnal Green just turned out to be "old man Clanton, the creepy caretaker in a mask."And, Philip, you'd have gotten away with it, to, if it hadn't been (etc, etc) ...