Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Elle Smith I wasn't that fond of this film if I'm going to be truthfull. The acting was good for a low budget film and the storyline was quite good but most of it was just confusing. I have met some Scottish people in my life and i understood them but the accent in this was unbelievably strong, i might as well have put it on mute. I enjoyed the realism of the film and i could actually believe it happened. I got confused at the end when Liam was on the beach and on the phone to Chantelle, i couldn't understand the phone call. I also though Liams 16th birthday party was a housewarming party, the mis-en-scen clearly didn't impress me that much. Give it a watch if you like gritty British films with crude language

gnostic21 How I love Ken Loach! How I love DVDs that offer subtitles, 'cos Loach movies absolutely need subtitles, especially this one with its thick working class Scots accents (fascinating that the English language has somehow incorporated this almost medieval dialect). Loach takes us to places we would never go to in The Disneyland Tourist world that we are sold as the 'real'world, but of course it isn't - Loach's world is the real one and his actors are real people, brilliantly directed, or allowed to be as natural as possible in a context of the narrative.The title is deceptive -one thinks one is going to see a teen coming-of-age movie in the American tradition (learning how to seduce romantic conquests, learning how to be 'marketable" - but it's a teen movie in the tradition of a socio-political context, absolutely unheard of in the American movie tradition.

dominic-cilli I went into this film with no preconceptions about its nature. I was expecting a sort of bittersweet coming-of-age tale judging by the title alone. What i got was a gritty uncompromising tale of growing up in a drug infested section of Scotland. A very intelligent 15yr old youth is determined to reassemble his family upon the emanate return of his incarcerated Mother. He manages, with a certain tragic costs, to assimilate himself into the local crime gang and upon his mother's release from prison he is greeted with somewhat shocking repercussion's that lead to tragic consequences. The film rings true in every sense. We are treated to insights into lower-class Scottish society that maintain an authenticity that is hard to fake. All the performances are deftly handled and the script keeps you hanging on until the end. Overall, a very fine film.

quibix This film is eerily similar to another movie, set & shot half-way around the globe. Check out, "Once Were Warriors", a New Zealand production that addresses many of the same issues. "Once Were Warriors" is about an inner-city Maori family that's forced to deal with the exact same social issues, such as impoverishment, dysfunction, violence, all of it. Jake, one of the lead characters in, "Once Were Warriors", resembles the, "Sweet Sixteen", character, Liam, in that both these guys will stop at absolutely nothing to see their agendas through. Jake, like Liam, charges into situations to get things finished, come hell or high water. They both eventually lose out, because they went entirely too far. Like "Sweet Sixteen", "Once Were Warriors" isn't a sweet, heart-warming family movie! Still, it's well-made & definitely worth seeing.