Sightseers

Sightseers

Touring England’s lamest tourist attractions in a caravan

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2013

2011’s dark comedy God Bless America had a fed-up pair killing off irritating people: movie theater cell-phoners, reality show stars, etc. This wicked little Brit flick from Ben Wheatley (Kill List) moves along on a similar theme, with a tacky couple of closet sociopaths (writers Alice Lowe & Steve Oram, sketch comedians) touring England’s lamest tourist attractions in a caravan, wreaking violent, murderous havoc on a variety of obnoxious types they encounter. Caution: dark comedy is a subjective thing, and this twisted flick, while made with skill and smarts, is about as pitch black as it gets.