I should also mention Tony Curran and Ian Pirie, who played their roles pitch-perfect. Jack Lowden and Martin McCann are both experienced actors and they were terrific here. With very well-written characters there was a need for great performances from our main protagonists and they delivered. There were a couple of necessary suspension-of-belief moments but nothing that would ruin the viewing pleasure.Ĭalibre is a directorial debut for Matt Palmer and I recommend you keep an eye out for this young and talented director/writer. It’s palpably intense and the clever writing keeps you on edge as you’re following the story unfolding. The most important thing about these movies is the atmosphere and they really nailed it here. They usually deal with familiar concepts and here we will be exploring the infamous city vs country folk paradigm. The characters are real and situations plausibly terrifying. Old school slow-burning thrillers with a simple and relatively engaging story.

Movies like Calibre sort of disappeared after the nineties.

Calibre 2018 cast