The Toll

2021

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 84% · 19 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 65%
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1852 1.9K

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Plot summary

Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin’s investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time.

Director

Ryan Andrew Hooper Photo
Ryan Andrew Hooper

Top cast

Alan Collis Photo
Alan Collis as Man on Bike
Steve Oram Photo
Steve Oram as Mr. Henry
Annes Elwy Photo
Annes Elwy as Catrin
Paul Kaye Photo
Paul Kaye as Cliff
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758.56 MB
1280*538
English 2.0
MA15+
24 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 1
1.52 GB
1904*800
English 5.1
MA15+
24 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 5 / 10

Now I'm usually a fan of Welsh movies

Now I'm usually a fan of Welsh movies. They usually excel at making me laugh, and at not taking themselves at all seriously. Well this one - not so much! Michael Smiley ("Brendan") mans a remote toll port-a-cabin in west Wales where he is lucky to see three or four cars per day. Why would anyone want such a dull job? Well local police officer "Catrin" (Annes Elwy) arrives at his booth one night and he proceeds to explain all about his somewhat dodgy criminal past, and soon we are immersed in a retrospective style feature involving kidnapping, murder and the theft of some iDrops! The comedic elements, and there are some, raise a smile for a few minutes but that doesn't sustain 80 minutes as the film quite quickly runs out of steam. Iwan Rheon is underused, and the soundtrack offers us hope of an ending that simply doesn't deliver. The dialogue is unnecessarily ripe at times, there's little shock or entertainment value in that anymore - we are all just to anaethetised to it now. Clearly a labour of love for Matt Redd and Ryan Hooper, and I suppose that this is the kind of low budget film that the BFI ought to be funding; but just wait til it gets onto the small screen. No need at all to see this at a cinema.
Reviewed by antide-42376 6 / 10

Not bad

I struggled with 'The Toll' for the first half hour or so as I found the plot to be muddled and all over the place. Gradually though things fell into place and made some kind of sense. At times this movie tries way too hard to be quirky and the influence from other movies is blatantly obvious. 'Fargo', 'Pulp Fiction' and any spaghetti western you care to mention spring to mind. Elements of Tarantino. Guy Ritchie and Sergio Leonne are so obvious that it can detract from the overall impact of this movie.I did enjoy it though, especially after the first half of the movie. Yes, it does try too hard to be clever, but it is worth a watch.
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