The Quiet One

This is genuinely the worst acting I have ever seen in my life ! I can not get across how bad the acting really is. Genuinely the worst film I think thats ever been made, it might be low budget but it's honestly embarrassing for everyone involved !

The sound is all over the place, the plot is beyond poor, the music is shocking, surely the makers of this utter rubbish can't of been happy with the final cut. I think you could get a bunch of completely random strangers off the street the do a better job than this. It's unbelievable how this film actually got onto amazon, if I could give this minus points I would.

I watched this after having the pleasure of meeting the director at Birmingham Film Festival last night. I was pretty cautious going in, given how so many no-budget films are quite dull. This is thankfully not the case here. The film is a slow burn, but it doesn't feel like it has much filler, which is the main gripe I have with similar films. The performances all range from decent to pretty good. Director Jon Pegg clearly has an eye for good actors, as the casting is all really good. The one role I would say I didn't feel like it worked was the lead. The actor is clearly good, but he doesn't quite have the presence of someonr like Clint Eastwood or Toshiro Mifune that the film was clearly trying to emulate. Not a bad performance by any means, just miscast.

Very solid all around. Obviously not perfect, but a good way to spend 90 minutes.

I've always wondered what the worst film I'd seen would be. It's The Quiet One! Ridiculous screenplay and script - just not thought through. Acting?! Well some professional and experienced actors would certainly have helped. Inept direction, obvious from the poor attempt to make things work in the edit. There was no sound dub so the audio is all over the place. In fact in some scenes it's difficult to hear what folk are saying. No grading obviously and the aperture and colour balance are well below the industry's standards. I note no tripods were used and though the hand-held is passable a proper DoP should have been employed. Why it's on Prime amazes me. Worth seeing if one must to experience the lowest of standards.

A fantastic back to roots movie that will either captivate you or bore you, there's no in between with this one, and this just hypnotised me as it was so believable and real,and just a few thousand budget, well done to all.

Highly watchable film about a man coming back to his old patch to take over a problem infested pub. He then comes up against local gangster with a hooligan son attempting to gain control of the Pub. The Quiet One attempts successfully to restore law and order in the Pub, making it as intended the focal point of the local community. Considering it was made on a very small budget 6K it is a decent British effort featuring the versatile actor/writer/producer George McCluskey a Coventry local man who has made many contributions to the British Film Industry, also winning several film awards for this one.