Diagonaldi Very well executed

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

mnhooper I, surprisingly, enjoyed this piece of hokum. However, after only about 20 minutes viewing something akin to deja vu occurred. I'm surprised that I'm the only reviewer that's noticed the similarity between this film and the far superior 1955 John Sturges directed classic "Bad Day at Black Rock" starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine among others.The story is almost identical. I quote the IMDb synopsis for "Bad Day at Black Rock" "A one handed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary". Compare that to the storyline for this film and you'll see what I mean. However, as I said at the beginning, I enjoyed this film but if you haven't seen "Bad Day at Black Rock" you really should. That is a masterclass in how to make a concise(81 minutes), beautifully edited,photographed and directed classic thriller.

gretz-569-323863 I watched this on a Saturday afternoon while doing laundry, and that's about what it's good for. don't expect "Citizen Kane." movies like this require some suspension of disbelief. plot holes you could drive the proverbial truck through, characters behaving in ways no real human being would ever behave...you have to be able to say "Oh well, at least I'll see some stuff get blown up." and you will, so it's all good.most of the fight scenes seem to have been filmed in a forest fire, with shadows and smoke obscuring much of the action--or, more precisely, non-action, since as other reviewers have noted, Val Kilmer's character is able to beat bad guys to a pulp without ever striking a blow.you will also have to ignore some knee-jerk lefty politics. yeah yeah, illegal immigrants good, Halliburton bad...we get it. but the plot is so tenuous it really doesn't matter.in summary: if it's on free cable, watch it; you'll be moderately entertained for an hour or so.

biffertron oh dear, it seems that quite a few gung ho Americans don't like films that point out the way big companies thrive on war and make lots of money out of it by supplying the goods to make war possible and then make even more money by rebuilding the mess they made.Don't let their innate bias put you off watching this film as it is a actually pretty good (apart from the ending 5 minutes which looked suspiciously like the studio waded in and made the director make a Segal / Van Damme type over the top conclusion). We actually rented the film because we thought it would be good stupid fun like a Segal film with lots of Saturday night 'whizzbangpoppery' but there is a lot more to it than that - I was starting to say that it reminded me a fair bit of a classic Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western when lo and behold! - turns out the name of the town is Lago - the same name as in High Plains Drifter!! Someone with enough intelligence and respect (writer or Director?) to sneakily name check a reference has got much more going on than the people who have dismissed the film cos they don't like the politics.So my advice is definitely worth renting - if you are a fan of thoughtful action films and like those classic Clint westerns cos this is a modern cousin of them. Enjoy

vitaleralphlouis This could have been an enjoyable action picture for Americans (we 50%) who respect and love our soldiers, and admire their ability to get a tough job done; BUT..........Val Kilmer plays a Special Forces veteran, home from Iraq, who goes to Arizona looking for his buddy, where he'll eventually find a load of trouble from a bad guy named Rhodes. What spoils the movie is the Liberal Democrat viewpoint that the Iraq War was/is being fought for the sole purpose of profit for war racketeers like this guy Rhodes. Mr. Rhodes, we are to believe, is a typical Republican. Worse, we are told the entire Border Security problem is for the sole purpose of more profiteering and that the Minuteman volunteers are a bunch of henchmen on the take from the likes of Rhodes. Can anybody say George Soros? Can anybody say Obama? Cut-n-run Democrats might enjoy this but they ought to just be embarrassed by it.