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Tyrannosaur is a fucking tough film not for the fucking weak of heart. It's fucking gritty, fucking solid, fucking muscular with all the fucking veins popped out, with all the anger fucking loose!
My apologies there, I was simply following the theme of the film. You see even before the film starts proper, Joseph makes George Carlin spin in his grave by giving his 7 dirty words a two finger salute. With that undying rage, Joseph gives a strong kick to his dog, Bluey, who dies almost immediately. This sets the harsh, all-too-real drama in motion. Joseph is a seriously flawed character with a rage inside him that rivals Wolverine in his "Berserker mode", and has a penchant for schoolboy bully violence. An unstoppable character pitted against an immovable world - yea, that pretty much sums it up, right?
Joseph then meets another wounded character, Hannah, and they become the unlikeliest of friends, and then lovers, throughout the course of the film. Hannah is at first a lovely character with no worries whatsoever. A few minutes into her introduction and we're betrayed of that assumption. She in fact has a much darker secret and life than Joseph's. They're both victims of the real world, and where the latter chose to deal with it through anger and violence, the former turned to god and faith, sort of becoming a wrapping paper to the world. Peter Mullan's performance as Joseph was unrelenting and full of machine gun power. It was a roundhouse performance that reminded me of a real world Kratos. Olivia Colman as Hannah was superb. She was one brave soul to stand up against a character like Joseph. It was a great - that word will soon be replaced by classic - performance that I think deserves a standing ovation. Eddie Marsen was pretty awesome in his role, too. It's just that he was very under-used.
In conclusion, Tyrannosaur is not an uplifting film, nor it is one with a message. It's a compelling character study on how these scarred personalities handle a starkly decayed world. A film not to be missed.
8.5/10
