robbieskillicorn-312-616986
This film doesn't take itself to seriously and that's what we enjoyed about it. Pity some of the reviewers on here take themselves so seriously. Funny film with some cracking one liners. Annette Crosbie as a machine gun toting granny is a must see. If your anal about your films then don't watch it but if you like a laugh definitely give it a go.
Syl
Most of people just fall into the movies industry's manichean trap: that was awesome / that sucked. All does not just sum up to that.Some movies do not pretend to be brainless blockbusters or over-the-top complex intrigues. Many well-thought movies manage to set up an atmosphere, a calm one, allowing you to enter it and fathom unexplicited details about the situation and the characters. Take Only Lovers Left Alive, for instance.I admit it that, at first, I was highly doubting of the value of Eat Local. The first scene is long, quiet and silent. Who does that? But this is exactly what encouraged me to keep watching (I had then no idea of what I was looking at, save for a vague two line synopsis and I hadn't looked at any trailer): the movie tried something unconventional.Then, boom, surprise, the casting. I couldn't believe my eyes! Even though I had doubt over the following scenes, the atmosphere and cast locked my undivided attention for good: every character had something peculiar, a personality and behavior of their own. Alike real life, you had to stick with them to find out who they were and be positively surprised.And it all tilted in my head at the first military scene and at the arrival of Billy Cook and Eve Myles to the meeting. I realized the subtle humour that was embedded. Be it awkward pauses or poses seeming off or sweet gestures or forced laughters, the tragic setting of the movie brilliantly collided with its lightness in recounting the story.And then, I can only remember enjoying every bit of it. At times I was surprised at the unconventional characters and feared any foreseeable outcomes or lines. But there were none. I was being surprised and led from laughters to more surprises. But there was NO MISTAKE AT ALL. Not one cliché apart for humour's sake. And this, this is so uncommon that I had to immediately watch it all over a second time! (in French, for the sake of comparing little details)Yes, this movie is not what one can expect at first glance. It goes deeper, it is more subtle and incredibly more poignant than most of other attempts out there to do impressive crazy stuff. Many vampire movies are shot to entertain us, but rarely to make us think (between two smirks). That's the hidden strength of Eat Local and its incredible cast and crew, who deserve so much more recognition and who are way too much underrated.I can't wait to see the sequel: Eat Global.
adonis98-743-186503
In a quiet countryside farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too; Sebastian Crockett, an unwitting Essex boy who thinks he's on a promise with sexy cougar Vanessa; and a detachment of Special Forces vampire killers who have bitten off more than they can chew. This is certainly going to be a night to remember... and for some of them it will be their last. Eat Local is another vampire film that contains action, horror and a lot of comedy, you see the only reason why i watched this was because of Charlie Cox who plays Marvel's Daredevil in the Netflix TV Show he also starred in Stardust a film that was quite charming also Tony Curran who played a Vampire in Underworld: Evolution and of course Vincent Regan who starred alongside Gerard Butler in 300 now with an impressive and pretty talented cast like that you would expect that this film might bring a new life to this kind of Vampire Movies or at least be scary or just fun to watch. Eat Local is not just awful in everything but it's also boring, the actors feel like they were reading their lines, the comedy was dumb especially that scene with the Grandma and the gun felt like a Rambo Parody, the movie isn't scary at all and everyone likes to throw some over the top one liner or just say something stupid from time to time. Also like i said the movie is boring it has a very slow pacing and it takes place inside a house with an army of soldiers that have surrounded the area and the family can't escape, overall this was an awful film from script, to direction, to acting and even characters and i'm amazed how it even got a 6.0/10
