A Lonely Place to Die (Julian Gilbey, 2011)

Be thankful for small mercies; this low-budget British thriller does not have Danny Dyer in it, despite the presence of a Serbian warlord and gun-toting kidnappers. The plot, such as there is one, has a group of mountaineers in the Highlands find a young girl interred in the wilds and then get chased by the aforementioned abductors, who are hell-bent on shooting the lot of them for running off with their moneymaker. The taut execution of the chase is as efficient as it is exploitative in its violence, and overall it would have been decent of the makers to provide mouthwash for viewers subjected to its gun-priapism, which unfortunately overshadows its adept cinematography and bold landscapes.

4/10