The Estate (2011)
1/10
Terrible, Terrible, Terrible
16 August 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Whilst I appreciate independent film makers stepping up and making feature length feels, I really think that the £100,000 spent on this film could have been far more usefully utilised on buying stocks in Woolworths.

The plot starts off badly and goes downhill very soon. The characters are completely unbelievable, you cannot sympathise with any of them or in fact care what happens to them. The acting is some of the worst I have ever seen, with actors looking like they almost have to be nudged by the director to give them their lines. I really struggled to work out how the actor who played the policeman "Stephen Drew" got the role as he was one of the worst until I saw in the credits that he wrote and directed it...

There are so many pointless substories which don't add to character complexity, but rather just ask as meaningless filler. The drug story I also found quite hysterical. A girl having her first line of coke, then next scene is whoring herself out and then she's dead. I think the writer might be mixing up their drugs really as this type of quick downfall would normally be associated with heroin.

The script writing finally was absolutely horrific and unbelievable. Violent films of this nature are some of the easiest to impress with a low budget, but when there is so much vulgar repetition of meaningless "council language" everything just lost it's effect.

In response this film was so bad I signed up to IMDb just to leave this as I normally cannot be bothered. I truly hope this film doesn't wreck the careers of any potential actors involved.
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