AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

poj-man Good lord is this an awful movie. The characters and say nothing that any human being would do or say. It's amazing that a lady who is head of a major gun manufacturing company is someone no one misses when she is held in the park. She is trapped chained to a hot dog stand....where of course she never has to pee...and which has conveniently placed Coke products for product placement...and the only people she speaks to are the sniper and the next the next important character needed to move the plot forward. No one calls her about missing a facial appointment or anything like that.Of course there is a bomb in the cart. Yet...with hundreds of people walking by all the time not one damn one of them ever notices that she is chained to a hot dog cart! And...with a sniper trained on her...which means there is only one single angle to shoot from but no one can figure that out...and a cop shot dead in the street for at least 12 minutes before any rescue can arrive....so nice of the dreck to inform us...NO ONE IS TAKING CHARGE OF THE AREA TO SECURE THE AREA! Not only was any legal context of the Second Amendment ever researched before writing this crap...law enforcement 101 was also skipped.This is an amazing exercise in convenience. Nobody's cell phone dies at the wrong time and the calls are not interrupted. The master villain knows everything about everyone and knows exactly when they will show up. Everything is so "pat" it is just silly.

steve_koenig This movie actually held my interest for about 10 minutes, and it could have been interesting, but it wasted no time in portraying the characters in the most simplistic of ways (e.g., bad people all take drugs, screw around and, in some cases, market weaponry).The Snipes character makes threats that would be credible only if he were willing to kill innocent people, but the writers/director make it clear soon in the film that he is a principled man (also a great shot) who is on the side of goodness, and against bad people. You know he is bluffing. If the characters had been a bit more mixed, and not like cartoon characters, the movie might have been more interesting. It did have potential.

Rick Blaine Kari Skogland does an excellent job keeping this taut thriller shot in Vancouver together. If you know who Linda Fiorentino is, then that's enough reason right there to watch and she doesn't disappoint - in fact she carries most of the movie. And you may be a Wesley Snipes fan, but odds are you've not seen him do something like this before. There's also a bit role for Oliver Platt and a tonne of extras or 'almost extras', and the way Skogland sets her shots is attention-getting.Now you're going to run into the pro-Columbine people who say 'but you should have presented both sides of the issue'. To these spineless mugwumping weasels I say the following: in perhaps no country save South Africa is there as much violence as in the US. The likelihood of getting shot and killed in the US is more than four times as great as in Europe.Those are not opinions either, so there's no point complaining people have to present both sides of the issue. Those are facts.This movie is scary; it is raw; and it's made (and written) by someone with conviction. See it and be convinced.

patriot1732 This review may contain a few plot spoilers - if you can consider this dog even containig a plot.This is nothing more than an anti-gun; anti-NRA propaganda film. The entire plot is weak and serves as nothing more than a liberal soapbox against guns. The acting and story lines are weak. The premise that they cannot evacuate a live theater because "someone welded the exit doors shut" in order to create some tension in the movie is a joke. For someone that is supposed to be so corrupt (LIberty) to think being held hostage will make her "See the light" and take a stand and act against the evils of gun is utter nonsense. Even the police are lame - "the fire department hasn't arrived because they're held up in traffic"? PLEASE!!!! Give the viewer more credit for intelligence than that.And what's with this guy sitting in a dressing room with a laser pointed at him? The whole theater troop thing is lame as well. Snipes has been in some dogs but this one should be "curbed".