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KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

johncutter0072006 A critical sensation and a DVD hit in the US, Ian David Diaz's The Killing Zone embedded its movie-made world of talkative hard men, a mysterious company called the Syndicate and the coolest assassin ever Matthew Palmer, becoming one of the best low budget UK film I've seen in a long time. Diaz updates his UK hard-boiled crime film with twists and turns together with his nod to Tarantino the king of the hard-boiled crime movie. The film is surreal yet has a realistic atmosphere together with wittily pop-literate dialog which is engaging and some great performances from unknown actors such as Mark Bowden, the sexy Melissa Simoetti and gorgeous Nicola (UK's Eastenders) Stapleton. The direction is masterful and the photography is soooo cool! Better than Lock stock, Gangster number one, Revolver and that Layer cake this is a film you should see. If you're into finding out who's going to be the next big UK director – mark my words Diaz is going to kick ass in the future. Rent out this movie!!!! None of its many imitators has yet come close to matching Pulp Fiction's impact but let me tell you if the Zone was give a theatrical release it would. I rest my case.Also a note: I watched Lucky Number Slevin and me thinks one of the producers or writers have seen The Killing Zone – just look at the way Bruce Willis is dressed – very Matthew Palmer.

jasonallan0072003 Yes I've seen The Killing Zone and it blew me away! It's Lock stock meets Get Carter! Way better than Layer Cake (even dear old Lock stock) it's got great photography, cool acting, in parts funny and very engaging (I loved Matthew Palmer) But what I really liked about it was the way it was directed (Fine work Mr Diaz) scenes were actually very exciting so that at times you felt concerned when certain characters were in peril. All UK thriller movies should be made this way! I can't believe I missed this movie when I was in the UK five years ago. Anyhow, go see it you'll love it, trust me!

bede-3 The killing Zone was a great film with excellent characterisation, an unusual plot line and greaat visualisation. It has irony and humour and shows what can be achieved by small independent film makers with determination and talent.I look forward to seeing the next offering from Diaz.

mwalker78 I'm pleased to say there are many reviews of this film circulating (Ain't it Cool included), and I haven't seen a bad one yet.I saw The Killing Zone myself at its market screening in Cannes last year, and I'm so glad to see it's finally getting wider circulation. What stuns me is how it didn't achieve a theatrical release in the UK, while other lesser films received silver screen treatment they didn't deserve.So what is it that makes me like this film so much?Well firstly, it's so refreshing to see a British film which avoids grim locations and subjects. The Zone's makers have clearly set out first and foremost to create a commercial feature, to make it as slick, glossy, stylish and cool as they can. And boy, do they succeed.The lighting, camera and sound are all engineered to give a distinctly American sheen to the clearly British Crime scene. And the music too; a real orchestral sound, built around John Barry 60s motifs by Guy Michelmore, adds depth and resonance to scenes already well written and performed, highlighting moments which twist from the painfully tense, to side-splittingly funny (though I wasn't so sure about the use of electric guitars in the second story). The writer-director, Ian David Diaz, isn't above throwing our expectations too. I won't spoil it for you, but I was pleased and surprised to be caught off guard by the odd revelation and surprise moment. You can see Diaz's influences; clearly the 60s Harry Palmer films and Tarantino (the Zone is basically three stories in one film) are guesting in his writing and direction, but Diaz makes such influences his own. An assured and knowing debut.All the performances are top-notch, though a couple of the lesser roles come across a little shaky, and distracted a bit from the main action. The lead, Padraig Casey as Palmer, gives an un-nervingly cold face to the anti-hero assassin, so used to killing he knows little feeling himself now. An odd contrast to Palmer's buddy, Lance - played with relish by Mark Bowden. A journalist beer-guzzler writing Palmer's biography, Lance is not above a willingness to selfishly cut his losses when the going gets tough in the third story. The women shine too; Melissa Simonetti is a gleefully deranged hired gun "Woman in Black" in the second story, and Nicola Stapleton's sexy Kerry - Palmer's girl - communicates perfectly the young girl's desperate situation in the third story. Generally I'm surprised such a cast aren't seen more in the British film scene.Above all I'm stunned at what was achieved with so little money. Check out the makers' website, where they tell you how they did it. Impressive.Better than Lock Stock, in my opinion. And not a chirpy, cheeky cockney in sight.I hope you're making another film soon, Mr Diaz.