Peter Mullan plays an ageing, greying guy living out a sad endgame of a life. One day, to escape from a violent fiasco of his own making, Joe seeks refuge in a charity shop and finds himself being befriended by the shop's manager Hannah, superbly played by Olivia Colman.
Rage and violence are the subjects of Paddy Considine's directorial debut, but his film is more than a collection of miserablist cliches. ‘Tyrannosaur’ is far from a love story, but it is not a simply a hate story, either; it is certainly a very impressive debut from Considine.