Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Python Hyena The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015): Dir: Robert Carlyle / Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Ashley Jensen, Sam Robertson: The legend in question comes through several errors of conduct that result in a few accidental murders. Robert Carlyle plays Barney Thomson, an ill tempered barber who is about to be fired but a tussle with his boss ends with scissors stuck in his chest. Paranoid Barney packs up the body in hopes of figuring out what to do. He goes to his ill mannered mother for support only to learn more grim truths. As director Carlyle proves to understand old British humour and excels greatly here despite some harsh gross moments involving body parts. Carlyle plays off the paranoia with great comic payoff as he feeds one lie after another to two competing investigators that are bearing down on him. Emma Thompson plays his cynical mother who views the body in her son's trunk as something to scold him for as oppose to be shocked by. Ray Winstone plays a frustrated cop investigating the disappearance while Ashley Jensen plays an angry and aggressive investigator who is constantly exchanging nasty insulting one-liners with Winstone. This all concludes on a clever standoff that pits Thomson as the main and secondary target. Extremely funny edgy comedy that examines the messes we sometimes find ourselves in and the faulty methods we may undertake just to cover them up. In the end Thomson observes everyone from outside the barber shop trying to understand how he became a legend and the absurdity of it all. Score: 9 / 10

randy filkirk This is not a film for everyone, specially the swearing. I found it hilarious at times, serious at others, yet when all is said and done there was an undertone of reality that seemed too surreal in its absurdity. The Scottishness will be be missed by some as Americanness is missed in other films. It was nevertheless very entertaining and reasonably clever in a naive and old fashioned way. I will never forget certain moments in this film and this is why i give it a fairly high rating. My favourite moment has to be at the bingo hall when in the entrance. I found the ending a bit boring but generally there were more than enough good moments to make up for that.

Morag Brown I watched this in a cinema and there was a lot of laughter coming from the audience. One man even laughed at the first line. The laughing continued throughout.I would have given the film 10 stars but the story is a bit ridiculous. But, since it is comedy, and IS funny this didn't seem to matter too much. The ending was amusing too. The film is beautifully shot and the acting is 1st class. My favourite line delivered brilliantly by Emma is "I label everything." And I agree with another reviewer that in the future, this may be considered a cult classic.

Red-Barracuda This crime-comedy is lead actor Robert Carlyle's directorial debut. In it he plays the title character who is a late middle-aged barber living a life of humiliations who accidentally kills his boss after an argument, leading to a chain reaction of ever worsening events.Typified by distinctive on-location shooting in the east end of Glasgow, this is a pretty good effort all round. It benefits from some effective comic acting by its cast, aside from Carlyle himself the two other standouts are Ray Winstone as a cockney cop displeased to be stationed north of the border and, best of all, working under heavy make-up Emma Thompson is very convincing as Carlyle's elderly Glaswegian mother; as per usual she puts in fine work here and nails her character pretty firmly. The plot-line isn't really massively interesting to be fair and, instead, the film works as a character-driven comedy. Fortunately, the characters are, for the most part, well-drawn and the comedy is often pretty funny. Things are ultimately rounded off with a finale that is perhaps a little predictable once the basic set-up is established but for this it can be forgiven. All-in-all, while it doesn't exactly break the mould, this film is still a pretty solid bit of fun.