Good and bad. The main kid is an idiot. I have no sympathy for him. The parents are caricatures of useless council estate parents. I hope this movie isn't trying to be a social commentary! In fact a lot of the character decisions in this movie are ridiculous. Example, why does the kid who loves horses, and who sees a dead one next to the live cable, do nothing about the cable? He also warns about the cable yet suffers the fate he does, which by the way was predictable. Everyone is so stupid in this, but that's OK because they're poor. I get it now. Poor people are the type of idiots that cut into live cables. It's also too visually grimy for the sake of it. This is gritty and real... to people living in nice areas who stereotype the poor or want to feel like this movies has a social message. I'm not saying the type of poverty in this movie isn't real, but these characters have no light to the dark.