Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

PeterMitchell-506-564364 I must say, I'm actually glad I decided to watch this. I love Rutger Hauer and his movies. I don't think there's one I've ever disliked. This story is about a couple returning from one of their hot spots, oblivious to the nightmare that's waiting for em. You can only take your eyes of the road for a second, before you accidentally hit someone. We've seen this scenario many times in other movies, where the innocent culprits panic, and cover up the incident, and again here, someone was watching. What's more, the victim was a cop, and they are in Mexico. They're stopped by customs, looking for drugs or something, where they try to keep their nerves keep intact, not easy, when considering they previously doused the windscreen, free of blood, whatever. Their grill too damaged, some specks of blood still on it. Now back in town, as well as getting their grill fixed, they consult with their friend-lawyer, (Jonathan Banks-can you believe that?) what had happened, the poor sob knocked down, his brains sticking out of his skull. She is shockingly accurate in her description. What I remember, the couple (De Mornay and Silver who I liked in this) ran a successful antiques business. And guess who shows up at their door, from Mexico, no less. Rutger, a con man, wanting a job. He's great here, his best role in years, and funny too. That's almost the reason I keep watching it. Now making the couple somewhat paro, he slowly manipulates his way into their lives, giving hints and references to what happened down in Mexico. They give him a job, in the early part of his manipulation, where he literally jumps at the chance, becoming family, living in his RV. parked outside Silver's house. And you should see his R.V. Rutger keeps playing them, where they begin to suspect him more to the point of absolution, but by then he's really got em. It's like this psycho is always one step ahead. After Rutger has some rough sex with a female colleague, to the point of giving her a shiner, and he shows up with a certain cop's badge, the couple realizing they have to get rid of this guy for good. There's a great scene here, Silver truly at a loss, driven into a corner, where he absolutely loses it in his shop, after calmly threatening to kill Rutger. But there's more to this story, where the goodies have to outsmart the bad guy. Mornay's character who falls pregnant, losing the baby from stress, immediately reminded me of Pacific Heights, the same occurrence from the effect of a crazy. Blind Side is one of those straight to video thrillers that's a good pick out of the not so good bunch, It's just as good as a lot that hit the big screen, but frankly, it does have more video appeal. It plays itself well, our three players making it work, but ultimately it's Rutger's film, even if watching this love to hate villain get electrocuted, not the most pleasurable of scenes.

frheins Blind Side (1993)Sometimes in life, good people under trying circumstances make grim decisions that will, no matter how many years trudge by, will never rise to the level of "excusable." In this thriller directed by "Geoff Murphy," two such people are the husband and wife duo played by "Ron Silver" and "Rebecca De Mornay," respectively. (Duh.) Soon enough, their once in a lifetime moral failing comes back to haunt – and taunt – them, with a horrible vengeance.Traveling north on a deserted road, yet far south of the border, the two small time entrepreneurs on the tail end of a business cum pleasure trip slam headlong into gut wrenching tragedy; more specifically, this dark and foggy night they inadvertently run down a Mexican Policeman, who, for some unknown reason, lurches out of the brush and onto the windshield of their SUV.Having enough decency to stop and verify the lawman is in fact beyond mortal help, the character of the husband aggressively convinces his wife that sticking around and doing the right thing might result in some serious hard time. Not a pleasant prospect, considering that the wife was behind the wheel at the time of the accident, and newly pregnant, to boot.After a tense-ridden crossing of the border, slipping under the noses eyes of suspicious Mexican authorities, they return to their once gratifying life of making and selling pricey furniture. Once a shared calling so pleasantly normal, the love-filled duo are forced to cope as best they can (especially the wife) with their newly acquired burden of guilt. Given time, maybe, they expect the guilt will fade to a tolerable level.Time to heal, regrettably, is cut short.Enter "Rutger Hauer," an ominous figure who shows up at their residence looking, for of all things, a job. Tall, handsome, and flushed with an understated animal magnetism that slowly morphs into something darker and more expressive, one of the first of many cryptic and troubling things that glide past the smoothly folksy tongue and subtly smirking mouth of the stranger is that he, too, has recently come north from Mexico. And, without coming out and saying it directly, somehow, someway, he knows more about the husband and wife's grim misadventure down south than they could ever have imagined anybody, anywhere ever learning.Let the enigmatic game of indirect intimidation, foreboding blackmail and life-shattering violence begin.Sounds like the confection of an appetizing spine-chiller, huh? And it was, mostly.The rub, as I experienced it, was excessiveness. Trimmed 15, maybe 20 minutes, and instead of the drawn-out drama I sort of enjoyed, I might have been treated to a top-notch taut thriller. Excessive celluloid bred redundancy. If Rutger Hauer had dropped one darksome, telling hint, he done dropped a thousand. His slyness got so overplayed, I nearly screamed at my TV "out with what you know and how you know it!" Also, those two or so beatings he administered to Ron Silver's character diminished in impact with each thrashing. Oh, back and forth their joust of machismo went. Throw in the three isolated confrontations between Rutger Hauer and Rebecca De Mornay, face-offs that held the potential for violence, sex or a combination thereof – and . . . well, you know, if I saw it twice, I didn't need to see a second encore.So much of a good thing didn't necessarily equate to a consistently good feature. Nor did it have a chance.Anyway, "Blind Side" ultimately turned out to be a fair to good movie, carried to the finish, barely, by a clever plot line just believable enough, reinforced along the way by stellar acting.(Besides, it certainly beat the two previous DVD's I had to suffer through courtesy of my monthly subscription: weirdo "Electric Glide in Blue," a movie that must have had some significance when it was released three decades ago, when going against the grain meant a little more than hating all things George Bush, and "Bone Daddy," a murder mystery that coincidentally starred Rutger Hauer, which, unfortunately and puzzlingly, was riddled with an illogically unfolding plot and "Bone-Headed" non sequiturs of dialogue.)

ccthemovieman-1 This is a "sleeper," an intense and involving thriller that grabs you from the start....but a film not people know about. Hey, only 10 people have even reviewed it here and the film is 13 years old. To be fair, I did think the finish was unrealistic which the typical killer-talks- instead-of shoots mentality, a familiar flaw in flimmaking. Too bad, because the rest of the movie is very good with Rutger Hauer a convincing evil blackmailer. Few actors play a psycho better than Hauer (see "The Hitcher" and "Nighthawks"). Rebecca DeMornay is a sexy woman in this film while her husband is the sleazy Ron Silver, but the latter's character is better than most the villains he usually portrays. This movie also has the unusual distinction of being a modern-day crime film with very little profanity.

Dan Franzen (dfranzen70) Doug and Lynn Kaines (Ron Silver and Rebecca De Mornay), furniture tycoon-wannabes, are in Mexico scouting out a new location for their business. Driving back home, they seemingly strike and kill a man standing in the middle of the road. Frightened, they drive on home. Shortly after they get there, however, Shell (Rutger Hauer) shows up on their doorstep, claiming to have been in Mexico and to be looking for employment. The Kaines, presented to us as everyday people (albeit with money), instantly sense that Shell knows something about the hit-and-run - or does he? They don't know for sure - not at first - but even the possibility of the hulking Hauer being able to hold something over this affluent couple is enough to spook them. Complicating matters is the fact that Lynn's pregnant. So what would YOU do? Charming, handsome ("in an outdoorsy way," Lynn says), eager to please, Shell seems like he wants to fit in - yet he drops hints that he might have been a witness to the accident. Screenwriting being what it is today, we have a pretty good idea things will wind up in the open before too long, but not before the lives of the Kaines are completely ruined. If the lead characters were in their twenties, we'd see Shell try to do something to their parents, but since they're all grown up, Mom and Dad are out of the picture. (Which is not to say that Shell doesn't find someone close to them to harass, of course!) The story gets sillier and sillier as it goes on, but somehow the performances by all three leads keep it afloat. Hauer's doing a role he can pretty much do in his sleep, but he hasn't lost any edge off it. All in all, a fine HBO movie.