The family is experiencing financial trouble and after a storm destroys a bridge that links their house to the main road, Gary and Caroline argue about his debt and inability to pay for the repairs.

Michael later finds his rams for sale at the local livestock market and confronts Gary in a rage, who coldly refuses to return them.

Driving home, Gary and Jack angrily chase and taunt Michael, but swerve into a tree, totalling their truck.

Lee pressures a reluctant Jack into cutting the legs from the sheep while alive, senselessly injuring them and leaving them to bleed out.

Discovering his mutilated flock, Michael spots and unsuccessfully chases after the van, believing it is Gary's hired builder's.

Michael comforts Jack and carries him back home, where Caroline confronts him with a rifle after discovering the severed head.

[4] It is a European co-production with producers Ivana MacKinnon of the UK's Wild Swim Films; UK Producer Jacob Swan Hyam; Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde of Ireland's Tailored Films and Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts of Belgium's Frakas Productions.

[5] Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott replaced Paul Mescal and Tom Burke in the cast in February 2023.

The website's consensus reads: "By withholding clear heroes or easy villains in its tale of a destructive neighborly feud, Bring Them Down stands out as an exceptionally nuanced exercise in vengeance.

"[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[10] Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, "For all its ferocious focus, this is a relatively quiet movie that embraces its smallness.

It doesn't come at us as a teacher with a lesson, but more like a hard man in a pub who's drunk just enough to loosen up and get a bit vulnerable, but not so much that he gets self-conscious and needs to direct his misery outward and pick fights with other patrons.