The Worst Film Ever

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

McDermotts acting is great in this, but I digress.A few days before I watched this film, I tried had an argument on social media over what I view as Americans lacking ethics and a strong moral base.This movie is a classic example of that. Im sorry, but Josie taking out her Fathers murderous wishes in revenge, makes her no better than anyone else, in fact, she is the one who needs locked up and the needle stuck in her arm.Let me put it to you this way, Josie blaming prison guards for her innocent father being put to death, is like being mad at the police for enforcing the law. Example: Should cops be stomping all over poeples rights, seizing their cash and property, arresting them and throwing them in jail all because of a little pot? A vast majority of Americans think No, but our out of touch, Oligarchs in Washington DC, dont care what we want, so they have the police do their "dirty work".My point is, the protagonist in this movie is a moron who thinks that the people to blame for her Father being put to death are the SECURITY GUARDS at the prison, and not the politicians, scumbag lawyers, judges, and people in power who railroaded her Father.To add to the sheer absurdity that she would even get away with this, is the back-handed insults at the expense of Texas was unnecessary and just more Hollywood bigotry towards red states, which the hateful Hollywood bigots want seen as normalized. Maybe Hollywood should try treating people they look down on, like woman for instance, with respect.

I probably wouldn't bother with this movie if I had known how below average it was like beforehand. It isn't terrible, but it is slow, the plot twist (if you an call it that) became completely evident once Hank revealed the job he used to do and the movie just lacked any real depth. Save yourself 90 minutes and give something else a go. Similar movies are about like this one, but done much better - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Hard Candy, Lady Vengeance to name a few

Judging from the people involved, I expected this to be at least a good movie. Instead it turned out to be a preachy anti-death penalty movie that glorified murder, just not when the people getting murdered have been convicted of anything. To be clear, the movie goes out of its way several times to denigrate specifically the State of Texas and its use of the death penalty, while it justifies the main character committing murder against people who have not been convicted of any crime whatsoever and who didn't have any primary role in state executions.Further, as a lifelong Texan, I found it silly that the very distinct Louisiana accent used by the main male character/former Huntsville death row guard was actually claimed to be a "Texas drawl". They should get their money back from the speech coach who lied to them.The supposedly clarifying scene of an execution attended by a little 4 year old girl whose father was being executed is completely ridiculous on so many levels. They wouldn't allow any child to witness an execution. Period. Much less the child of the person being executed. The people who strap the inmate down probably don't hang around while the actual execution takes place, and they don't actually kill anyone, so why they would be hunted down and killed in revenge for the execution is a mystery. Maybe if the writer had considered the District Attorney, arresting officers, witnesses who helped get the person convicted, even the person who actually pushes the button that kills the convicted inmate would be better targets than the guy who straps the inmates left wrist. That's just dumb.But really, the movie deserves a low rating because it promotes the favored Hollywood stereotype that Texans sound dumb, look dumb and are dumb. I don't recall Hollywood being around on any jump I ever made. I have never seen Hollywood in any firefight. I have only ever seen Hollywood pretend to be things it is not and then give itself an award for how good it pretends to be things it is not. I am referring to Hollywood in the singular although it is made up of a lot of pretentious and self absorbed persons who do things like preach about the death penalty and make fun of Texans.Audie Murphy was from Texas. In World War Two he received every combat medal for valor available from the U.S. Army, along with French and Belgian medals. He also received the Congressional Medal of Honor. I never seen Hollywood get any of those. He didn't look dumb, sound dumb and was not actually dumb. He was also not pretentious and self absorbed.If Hollywood wants to pretend to be someone that looks dumb, sounds dumb and is dumb they should just be themselves.

Hank, a solitary man living a dull existence in the sleepy, Southern town raises eyebrows when he develops a questionable relationship with Josie, a recently transplanted high school student. To be honest i wasn't expecting this movie to be good and all of my fears came true i'm afraid, the perfomances from both main stars are good for the most part but the film is so freaking slow and their relationship leads to a horrible finale that was terrible on so many levels that left me shocked in a bad way. (2/10)