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The plot is fairly simple; Leila is on the run from her family, she is hiding in Yorkshire with her boyfriend Aaron. Her brother then rocks up into town with his crew of ne'er do wells and some hired hands who are also less than appealing.

They are going to leave no stone unturned in their search for the seemingly errant Leila and as ever violence begets violence and so begins a deadly chase.

Now this is a really good film; it has enough tension to make you wear the edge of your seat out. The characters are brutally realised and the acting is superb. It is visceral, taught and realistic. Made with help from Film 4 and Screen Yorkshire this is a film that has used that support wisely and given a platform to showcase some real talent. Sameena Jabeen Ahmed puts in a show stopping performance as Leila, the sometimes under rated Gary Lewis ('Outlander' and 'Filth') as Tony manages to shine – for all the right reasons - in a role that at first seemed peripheral.

This will be a film that will not be liked by some and the way things pan out is surprising, but that is fine by me I like to be challenged by a plot. Director Daniel Wolfe, who co-wrote this, has made a feature length film that he should be proud of and hopefully will lead to us seeing more from him in the very near future.

very powerful, and pretty impressive as a hybrid of British art- house and thriller conventions, even if these two strands of its makeup never sit entirely comfortably against each other. there's little that hasn't been seen in the films of other European socio-realist directors (i kept thinking of Ulrich seidl, Clio Bernard and Brno Dumont as well as tiny bit of ken loach, though this has little of loach's generosity or compassion) but the Wolfe's obviously know a thing or two about gut-piercing drama, they just stick too conveniently to the surface of the subject they are focusing on. it feels a little too easy to take such a sensitive subject and treat it merely as thriller fodder. yes it has some sensitive scenes, and the last scene is almost unbearable to watch (i left feeling scarred) but it is also just reveling in ethnic stereotypes in how there is not one redeemable Asian man on screen. so while you could say there are no redeeming men of any background on screen (or that it is not the job of every film to deal with this, but i would say for a film tackling this subject, and a group who are routinely represented poorly in the mainstream, it is an important detail, esp when there have been very few films dealing with these themes - catch me daddy seems close to becoming exploitation, albeit dressed up in art-house clothing), the older white bounty hunter at least appears to care somewhat, as does the white boyfriend. does it drive home the absolute horror of the situation as it should? yes. but it also relishes that horror a little too uneasily/problematically. it is essentially just reinforcing the audience's preconceived notions of Pakistani/south Asian communities, with Asian men as brutes, white men as saviours, Asian girls as victims, with little to challenge or colour around that - so while the film might appear superficially bold, its also somewhat thin on understanding its subject beyond very basic circumstances. but i imagine the Wolfe's would make good British genre movie makers, which the UK could probably do with more of. they're great filmmakers, I'm just not sure if they are particularly mature as storytellers.

One word is all that I can say about this movie "Raw'. It's a movie designed not to please or entertain but just a gritty story line of a chase that unfolds into a torrential end. As you watch the movie, you start looking for clues to it's purpose and then you settle into your chair and let the movie carry you. The characters are presented in a very raw form, no refinement but unadulterated compilation of characters with dialogue that bring the film to life. You don't guess, you watch and you witness people's demons and the measures they take to bring sanity and balance to their lives. A truly well executed movie that is worth watching.

"Catch Me Daddy" is a type of film we, as viewers, don't see very often anymore. It's not a particularly "deep" film but it also doesn't give you any information you don't need nor does it give you silly exposition to know something within the movie. Personally, I find it easy to appreciate that kind of film-making.

Apart from some of the dialogue being hard to understand from certain characters thick accents, there are not much flaws within the film from a directing, writing, cinematography, or editing stand point. My rating is mostly based on me being a hard ass while critiquing.

With a tension building plot, very cool soundtrack, stellar performances from a couple of the cast members, and a few brutal, brutal scenes, I can recommend this film to almost anyone who doesn't mind watching a movie made in a different country from their own. Enjoy!

'Catch Me Daddy' is a disturbingly charged and viscerally moving film with superb cinematography and timing which juxtaposes a stunning modern day Yorkshire Dales landscape with a alienated feel of tombstone... You almost expect tumbleweed to roll by at some point...

The powerful symbolism and imagery draws you into hidden world full of hidden meanings yet it still manages to challenge viewers to think about the injustices portrayed, which are real in a modern world and the uncomfortable subjects of revenge, killing for honour and respect and lawlessness.

The use of unknown actors in the lead roles is a genius move and really brings home the realism of the subject matter without sensationalising the issue of young girls and women being murdered for honour and respect.

Directed by the Wolfe brothers and produced by EMU Films, two British collaborations (and not too British) are making a name for themselves and are the ones to watch in the near future.

Just watched Catch me Daddy. Seen it twice before but it never fails to move or disturb. Tears of anger and sadness about greed, culture and religion. Doesn't make you feel good about the world, but it is real life. Entertaining? Yes 100% - but only if you like your entertainment to be challenging as I do. Laila is a Pakistani girl who finds a white british boyfriend and wants to live her life as she wants to live it. Only she has to run away to do so. Hence, catch me daddy. I don't understand the concept of 'honour killing', nor do I want to. A stunning 9 out of ten.

On paper, CATCH ME DADDY sounds by all accounts to be a tense and exciting cross between the art-house and thriller genres, delivering something ruthless and gritty we haven't seen before. A bit like '71, the Northern Irish film. Sadly, on screen it turns out to be a complete waste of time, a movie that dashed my expectations about ten minutes in.

A lot of these modern British 'kitchen sink' movies have similar problems in a lack of decent sympathetic characters. Certainly the two leads here - the Pakistani girl and her boyfriend who spend their lives hiding out on a caravan on a Yorkshire moor - are almost entirely without merit. They're uncouth, rude, self-centred, and spend the entire running time of the movie having stuff done to them rather than being proactive. I disliked them both instantly, and those feelings didn't change throughout the movie.

The plodding, padded scripting doesn't help. The storyline is very simplistic, with lots of travelling around punctuated by bursts of sudden violence. Things are so slow that a ten minute interval is used to show the characters dancing to some rubbishy music, which I could have done without. Yes, the cinematography is dark and brooding and occasionally atmospheric, but for what? The ending is as predictable as they come and the overacting from the lead actress is off-putting. I hated this one from beginning to end.

I had no idea what I was about to watch. Never heard or the film and bought in charity shop for a pound on blu ray.

At first it felt painfully slow. Then the tension began to mount.

Fine performances for all involved.(Except the milkshake boy!? Terrible) Gritty, realistic and gripping.

So why did they end it so disappointingly??

It wasn't original or edgy to keep the viewer dangling like that. It was just lazy and left you feeling cheated.

Lost lot of points for that.

I guess the director thought he was being cool.

Fail.

Music video guys (both white) try to direct a narrative movie, choose a subject that they clearly no nothing about or have any experience of. Film looks good, starts well, then slowly it becomes clear that the central relationship of the film is paper thin, under developed and badly realised, the runaway couple don't seem to be a couple at all, no sense of love or that they even actually know each other, and then it descends into a honour killing narrative, where nobody involved rings the police, and about 50 people are involved in this (some are white.......). Credibility zero. Writers picked the subject, treated it with no depth, then didn't know what to do with it at all, or how to actually write, or how to end what they choose as a story. The film reaches for importance when but is totally hamstrung by bad writing.

Fizzles to zero in the last half hour. Disappears up its own bum might be another description. No ending, a cop out.

Some decent scenes, which work, some good new actors and nice cinematic locations. Some of it seems well directed at the start especially. Good camera work too. BUT Without a proper story or real characters, by the end it's like a .... Well, a music video.

Director has an eye. Simple fix next time is to Hire a scriptwriter who can tell stories properly. Part of the blame should go to the BFI and lottery types who funded this and signed off on the shoddy script, badly realised characters and the ropey treatment of the serious subject.

Director never made another film, but may have learned good shots and visuals on their own, don't equal a proper story / characters. Missed opportunity. Potentially worth seeing, just don't expect it to work. The Raul Moat joke was good, and Barry and some of the lads seemed authentic, more so than the overall story/scenes.

I've just watched this and I can't stop crying. What happens is real, and nobody should ever suffer this. Every actor plays their part like it's a documentary, and I'm horrified. I knew this sort of thing happens, but the brutality has crippled me.

Catch me daddy was ok in the beginning. Maybe the title is a little weird and it makes you think its a different type of film, but lets start with some possitives. The directing was pretty good and their were some nice camera shots in it. This movie can become very disturbing at times, especially a part near the end that didnt need to happen really. Its all about this girl that runs away from her father with her boyfriend, that is until her father sends his men to get her back, by any means nessisery. I think this movie couldve done with more happening, instede of long scenes of diolog where nothing really happens. Overall not a great movie, it was watchable but no more.

Catch Me Daddy was a near-miss for me. A cat-and-mouse thriller about a white British bloke and his young Muslim girlfriend on the run from her possessive father in Yorkshire, it dips its toe into matters of feminism in Islam and the taboo of interracial relationships, but mainly concerns itself with one close shave after another for our increasingly desperate fugitive pair... along with shocking scenes of violence which are all the more affecting because they occur so sparingly.

Mostly taking place over the course of one brutal night, the story displays many rundown locations around the county and introduces us to a selection of particularly unsavoury characters; a Tourist Board advertisement for the region it is not. MiIdly diverting but definitely overlong, it's another one of those films that concludes with a giant question mark hanging over it. Some people would appreciate the ambiguity, other would prefer something a bit more concrete. I exist firmly in the latter camp. 5/10.