While I wholly appreciate this film's atmospheric tension, I found the story arc to be unfortunately predictable and somewhat unrealistic. I would've preferred to have seen more action between the family members towards the end, they seemed to really have polarizing viewpoints, yet they arrive at a (painfully obvious) agreement very quickly. I would've liked to see the decision making stretch out over the course of days with more dialogue, and more opposing view points. I especially wanted to see more from the girl (Iona?) whose character seemed to fizzle out towards the end of the movie, I felt like she could have had a lot to say about the situation but didn't. Speaking of the girls from the bar... I found it downright bizarre that a grown woman having sex and doing drugs is grounds for beating someone up and slashing their tires... Seriously. She's like forty years old!
In summary, it felt like the film leaned heavily on violence to drive the suspense instead of intelligent writing and that was disappointing. The story had potential to be fleshed out more, it could've been great but came off as just okay. Still worth a watch but don't expect a whole lot from it.
