Brian wants to kill them but Logan, realizing their deaths would be punished, insists on involving the police instead. Logan and Brian take Vaughn to a farm, where he confesses. Brian savagely beats Vaughn before being pulled off by Logan the rest pursue Marcus. As the group closes in, Marcus leaves Vaughn. Fleeing on foot, Vaughn stumbles and is injured by the dog, which Marcus stabs to death. While the group digs them up, Marcus and Vaughn attempt to flee, but their fuel tank is ruptured by a bullet from Brian. Logan asks them to help with the search, which they accept for fear of arousing suspicion. Al's suspicions are raised when Marcus, upon returning, asks about "them" despite having only heard that Logan's nephew was missing. While Marcus is in the toilet, Vaughn speaks to Al and Iona and realizes the deceased were Logan's nephew and brother-in-law. On Logan's orders, Brian offers an aggressive and insincere apology, while complaining that the locals are beholden to "city twats" because they might bring in money.
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They return to the pub to hire a taxi, but find the driver drunk. At the garage, the mechanic tells Marcus the repairs will take a day. The next day, their departure is thwarted when Brian, another of Logan's brothers, slashes their tires and attacks Marcus for sleeping with Kara and giving her cocaine. They return just before dawn but are spotted by the B&B owner's young son. Marcus recovers the bullets, using a knife to dig Vaughn's bullet out of the boy's skull, over Vaughn's objections. They return to the village and are invited to dinner by Logan and his cousin Al Logan asks if Marcus can help him find investors who might revitalise the community.
However, Marcus is told by a petrol station owner that Logan said no other hunters are around and convinces a traumatised Vaughn they can only protect themselves by returning after nightfall and burying the bodies. Marcus hides the bodies and they drive off, hoping to claim that they were hunting in another area. Vaughn wants to tell the police about the incident but Marcus convinces him they will be arrested as murderers. The boy's father arrives and, in a fit of grief, picks up Vaughn's gun and points it at him but Marcus shoots the man. On the hunt, the pair happen upon a deer in a clearing, and Vaughn aims at a doe’s head but it suddenly turns, causing Vaughn to shoot and kill a boy, unseen behind the deer.
Vaughn realises he has forgotten ammunition for his rifle, so Marcus lets him borrow one of his guns, despite this violating the strict firearm laws. On the way, Vaughn deduces Marcus has used cocaine and chastises him. Vaughn and Iona nearly kiss but Vaughn mentions his pregnant fiancée, so they have another drink instead.Įarly next morning, Marcus rouses a hungover Vaughn for their hunt. After dancing and drinking, Marcus leaves with Kara, despite being warned to stay away. They spend the evening at a village pub, where they meet Logan, a community leader who bemoans the village's weak economy and two young women, Kara and Iona. Easily a 9/10 for me, 100 minutes well spent.An aggressive Edinburgh businessman, Marcus, takes his boarding-school friend, Vaughn, whose fiancée is newly pregnant, on a weekend hunting in the Scottish Highlands. I really felt for the two main protagonists in places, but felt the ending was right. Even though there isn't really any over the top on screen violence in the movie, I still felt it was pretty gruesome.
Highly recommended, but not for the squeamish. It had me glued to the screen almost from start to finish, not many movies do that for me.
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This movie tells a very real story with realism you only see in top end productions. Martin McCann, Jack Lowden, Ian Pirie and Kate Bracken did a really good job and their acting was of a very high standard along with the rest of the cast.
Tony Curran, I have seen many times before and I always expect good acting from him. There are always going to be flaws and holes in the plot, but this simple story only had a few minor ones that didn't detract from the movie at all. Just about everything about this movie was as close to perfect as you can get, some of the cinematography was simply awesome, it made me want to be there. Happily I ignored the red flags and sat down to watch what I thought might be a waste of time and got a very nice surprise. Vote rigging has become a big problem on here and I very nearly dismissed this movie based on these red flags. Unfortunately, based on past experience, a high rating with that few votes and one glowing review are normally huge red flags for me on IMDb. Before watching this movie I came here and read the one and only glowing review and looked at the voting and saw that out of 43 votes 46% had voted 10.