the leading man is my tpye

not horrible nor great

Good idea lost in the noise

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

My review. this is a very boring and dumb movie. Screenplay is unbelievable, very unreal situation. A very stupid husband and a very wore wife. Why do you think (any of you) if your wife wants to live in a town where she knew an old boyfriend ? And when in some part of the movie she show her titties. to the workers, what it supposed to mean ? I'm not justifying the rape but any normal people goes to the police and moves outThis movie is just as stupid as American beauty was. No matter how many stars it could collect in time.By the way let me ask Avatar was a really a good best seller or it was just another well marketed movie from Hollywood ? There's a lot excellent low budget movies that you'll never see Regards to everyone Dan

Have you seen it? No? There is likely a very good reason for that...it stinks.Like nearly ALL the endless remakes and reboots that have been plaguing movie goers for the past decade or so....all this is, is a heartless version of the original.It has no heart.It has no soul.It is a retelling of a film that we all love and cherish...and it adds nothing to the story. It improves nothing but the special effects--which held up very well over time--and in some cases belittles the fans of the original...particularly in the fact that they remade the movie at all, without adding anything clever to it.Like so many other remakes it is a hallow shell of the original.

There aren't that many films that I would give full marks to but this has to be one of them. Some unusual things happen while you're watching this movie. First there's the story that you're watching unfold in front you and then there's another story running along side it that reminds you of lots of other similar stories of characters being tested. Then there's the story in your own mind revealing itself in response to what you're seeing. The story certainly makes you think, its not passive viewing by any means. For quite a long time I felt myself getting more and more upset with the tone of foreboding. I kept asking myself if I could withstand what I was about to see. Then you realise its not so much about the characters dealing with their problems, its about you and how you would deal with the prospect of this kind of menace. So very rarely as happens in films, you find yourself in the action, in the story and the 'you' in the story is doing exactly what the male protagonist does.There's a tipping point in the processing of events, that switches all of the choices and threats from being extraneous, to intimate and very personal. If that shift is communicated in the original book or if its Sam Peckinapah's contribution I don't know, but its rare all the same. Lots of films try to do it, but most fail. It could be that I've been reading too much about human evolution lately and how we are all essentially still just another species of animal on this earth struggling to survive, I don't know? But the idea that there's a desert island and beautiful tree with one perfect branch and two birds sit on the branch and fight till the death for the right to sit there, is the same for every single living thing. Whether we like it or not. Competition, greed, supremacy and the quest for ownership, however temporary, are everywhere, in all species. I do think though that the notion of choice is something that's only on offer in times of peace.

As only ever seeing parts of the original, with this remake, I'm pretty sure I'd still enjoy this versions better. Remakes tend to be livelier than originals. Here there's a forty year stretch. Marsden in one of his best roles (an actor who by now really deserves recognition) and his girlfriend (Kate Bosworth) really sexing it up here, move out to the country, where Bosworth was once a resident. Screenwriter, Marsden, has come out here to get some peace and quiet to work on his writing. When a group of townsfolk laborers, led by a jealous ex boyfriend of Bosworth's, come out to build a barnhouse, so begins an unnerving game to test one's patience, the main operative being Marsden, where these tradesmen show some uncanny behaviour and unnerving traits. If familiar with the premise of the original, we're treading the exact same waters, where we really get good performances out of the cast, notably Alexander Skarsgard, as the grudging ex, intent on seeing outsider, Marsden break, where they're main objective is to eventually drive em' out. But what's great about this Straw Dogs, as again I haven't seen most of the original, was a subplot in the third act, which leads to an ending on a path you don't expect it to go, involving an accidental murder, with now a much avenging townsfolk, where an almost intensely suffocating finale ensues. As for violence, it's sparse, only used with necessary, here one visual standout, a squirming, bone breaking moment, I guess to pun it up. I found the movie, most entertainingly rewarding, all through, something to talk about, with an ending I didn't expect, as I did a version of the song Breathless, unsung by Jerry Lee Lewis, here, coming across Marsden's radio. Willa Holland is delicious eye candy, looking appetizing, full cheerleader uniform and all, the apple of an older retarded guy's eye (Dominic Purcell) and she doesn't exactly mind too, where they have an open relationship. An aging James Woods as Holland's father, who really storms with anger when provoked, I didn't recognize at first. I guess we all get old.