Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

HorrorFanExtreme The story opens quickly and then moves faster. A few friends out for a boating trip that turns surreal. The daughter's "surviving" is key to my understanding of the film. I found the characters engaging and the dialog could have been smarter but the directing was excellent. The setting was masterful and cinematically it was excellent. The role of " Mr. Crocker" is a bit of a mystery to me, as we are left to wonder if he gets his and do the kids get theirs? I was left with many questions and I get something new out of the movie every time I watch it. I liked the British accents but I like UK horror films. I would recommend the film to anyone who likes puzzles as I am still trying to understand the relationships between all the characters. It would be a shame if it " is" just a collage of ideas with no real meaning.i for one believe their is a fundamental meaning to it all and continue to watch it over and over. Overall a good horror experience.

moruten13 At first I was not expecting a great movie, most reviews where low and said the plot was just gibberish or blurry. But when I saw the film, I noticed, those people hoped just for the general, slasher horror film, where something is somewhere slaugthering the group.But let me start at the beginning:The story starts with some friends from London renting a boat to party and get lost in the nowhere. Here most people already are turning their brains off, thinking about the usual teenager horror flick, but no. These people are more adult, acting more reasonable and not predictable in a horror film way of sense, but in a more logical sense. Which is refreshing, if you ask me! The acting is good, the faces new and not well known. Their British and the scenery (some kind of reeds covered swamp) not to much exploited.While being lost, they meet some really strange teenagers. (Spoiler, from her on you need to keep aware of what is happening more carefully).A bit later on, they kinda drove into something and one of the group get impaled by something, that was in the water, forcefully. Here it is a bit "overgored" but it's not too much.I don't want to spoiler too much, even though I warn of spoilers... it would ruin the film and the mood.The story is complicated, everything is connected somehow. This is the point, where some say it's too much and others (like me) say it's a really good story! It is rare for a film nowadays to be more than just entertainment but also giving you a story to follow, to connect clues and with such complex story and still making sense!I can recommend this film to everyone who wants to see a horror film, which is something else, way off from those gore and monster film. You won't be disappointed! In my opinion one of the best horror films I've seen so far! Everything is just above average and still, it is a budget movie from the U.K. Some of those American big players should stop coping Japanese or other horror films, or do sequels/prequels to already bleed out film series and focus on doing a story telling like in this film!

Boba_Fett1138 To be honest, the movie at first really doesn't seem like a bad one at all. The first few minutes are nothing too great but at least it makes you think that its going to head into something decent and watchable, if only a tad bit formulaic. But as it turned out in the end, the movie was just an incredibly bad one.The movie is just very poorly done. It's an extremely bad handled horror-film, that tries to go into many different directions but none of them ever work out for one bit.A problem already lies with its concept. Seriously, what is so scary about the reeds in this movie, even though all of the characters try to make it seem like it's one of the scariest places to be in and they constantly get a bad feeling about things, just by driving a boat, at clear day. The movie its 'horror' really relies on its concept and settings, which were already incredibly lacking to begin with.But the biggest problem of the movie simply is the story itself. The movie is given a whole bunch of side-plots, which makes the movie as a whole all the more messy and confusing. And the movie already gets an incredibly messy and confusing one to begin with, during its second half. First of all, the movie is so incredibly dark that you can hardly tell what's going on, on screen and who's where and most importantly why. And second of all, lots of stuff just doesn't make sense. Like mentioned earlier, the movie combines lots of different horror elements, in an attempt to keep things interesting and also surprising but instead it makes things incredibly messy. You see people constantly running and looking scared, a ghostly figure appears, a strange sound can be heard but there is actually very little happening in the movie. It's not a boring one, the movie is too fast going for that but there is nevertheless not a whole lot happening in this movie.No way that this movie will please any horror fans, despite the fact that it still has basically all of the right ingredient in it, to make a decent, watchable horror film out of. The execution of it all is however far too poor and lacking for any of the horror to ever work out. The atmosphere is too dark, since you can't even tell what is happening, there is no gore, no effective scare moments and no real originality to it all, though the movie tries really hard to be. horror fans should simply stay away from this, as should everybody else.A failed attempt.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

psychologypressmarketing In his paper the Uncanny Freud noted our love of frisson and scaring ourselves. He would have appreciated the cunning way in which this film builds up and the nice setting of the boat. All are confined, all are defined here. Unfortunately nothing is known about Freud's taste in cinema. But The Reeds has many merits. There are moments when you really feel scared and disgusted. It managed to convey a sense that the doomed young on their doomed boat have been exiled from the outside world. The director and cameraman make the Norfolk broads are scary. The conclusion is surprising. So well worth a viewing and if it not quite pee in your pants terror it is definitely goose bumps. Well directed, well acted too.