Tornado

"John Maclean Returns with a Samurai-Influenced Survival Thriller (...) Jack Lowden and Tim Roth star in the Scottish filmmaker's uneven second feature." 

"You’d be forgiven if you glanced at the monotonous western “Tornado” and decided that it’s a handsome genre exercise. (...) Maclean’s execution frequently makes up for his distracting habit of both over- and underthinking certain key concepts. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" 

"A harrowing, blustery, violent amalgamation of an idiosyncratic spirit" 

"[It] ultimately underwhelms, lacking the emotional depth and narrative cohesion needed to make it a compelling period thriller" 

"John Maclean brilliantly captures the brutality and hardship of 18th-century Britain in a bleak but blistering tale (...) Rating: 9 (out of 10)" 

"For the most part, there’s a naturalism to the storytelling, from which Maclean sometimes strays to mixed effect (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" 

"In the title role, the singer-songwriter Koki is both charming and indomitable"