And this weekend, that friend, Marcus (Martin McCann) - finance expert by day, cokehead partyboy by night - has decided to celebrate/mourn the impending end of Vaughn's irresponsible childless years by arranging a hunting trip to the Highlands. Vaughn (Jack Lowden) lives a quiet life in Edinburgh, happy to sit at home with his pregnant fiancée, but he's got one of those friends that so many approaching-middle-age guys in movies do: the wild one who never quite grew up, the one Vaugn has definitely have outgrown & knows it, but habit and respect for the old days means that he can't bring himself to ever stand his ground and say no. The film, the feature debut of writer-director Matt Palmer, is a very '70s-esque of the terrible things that happens when urbanites head into the countryside to do Manly Things. I mean, for God's sake you guys, it's a Netflix genre film that tells an interesting story with well-defined characters! It's nice to look at! Holy shit, roll out the Oscars!īut no, for real, Calibre is good & worth your time. It speaks to how quickly the words "Netflix original" have come to mean "like a direct-to-video film from the '90s, only somehow even sadder" that a pretty straightforward thriller like Calibre seems like a small masterpiece.
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