I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

"Suddenly". It is sad that an idea for a movie can be taken and destroyed as the worst piece of cinema ever. Whoever put this mess together must to have had some money to throw away. I thought I had seen some bad movies before, but this one is the worst of the worst. If you must watch it to believe it, then you will understand how terrible it is. You will believe your "lying eyes". Ray Liotta must be desperate for money because he is going from bad to worst. Not only was the acting terrible, but the music score will make you physically sick. It has been a long time since I have seen anything as awful as this. It makes a viewer appreciate a good movie when one is seen. This director should be arrested for this direction. Awful, just awful!

Some movies just shouldn't be remade. I gave this film a 2 star rating because I did watch to the end. I like the actors, but they can't make up for poor script revision and direction. It also doesn't help that they took what is largely a dialog film and tried to add too much action. My advice go to YouTube and watch the original (B&W not colorized). Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden and James Gleason carried the movie with style. Direction by Lewis Allen was excellent. The original pulls all the pieces together better. I don't want to put any spoilers in, so I'll simply say that there was no reason to change Todds' character. And Pidge played better as a kid than a teenager.

"House of the Dead" director Uwe Boll and "The Killing Machine" scenarist Raul Inglis have appropriated Lewis Allen's presidential assassination thriller "Suddenly" (1954) and updated it. Basically, Boll and Inglis preserved the basic plot, but altered the characters. Nobody is truly the equivalent of Sterling Hayden. Hayden was the sheriff, while Ray Liotta is cast as a deputy rather than the chief. Erin Karpluk shares little in common with Nancy Gates as the anxious mother. The filmmakers have aged the character of Pidge, too. In the original, Pidge was an adolescent, but here he is a teenager. Ellen hated guns in the original, but she wound up using a gun to save the day. In the remake, Ellen makes no comments about violence and guns. Ellen's father in the remake is a goofy home-repair screw-up, while James Gleason in the 1954 version was a retired Federal agent. Boll has made a respectable thriller with a top-notch cast. Indeed, the performances are all first-rate with Liotta and Dominic Purcell going toe-to-toe for top acting honors. Clocking in at 90 minutes, "Suddenly" isn't bad, but neither is it above-average. The exterior scenery is majestic.Right-wing assassins take over a house high enough above the town of Suddenly so they can shoot an Obama presidential look-a-like. Ray Liotta plays an alcoholic small town deputy with a dark secret. Liotta is as close as you can get to a hero in this complicated yarn. Altogether, Frank Sinatra version of "Suddenly" released in 1954 surpasses this polished but pale rehash. The good citizens of the small town of Suddenly are surprised when they learn that the President is passing through town. The town fathers stage a reception for him. Meantime, bogus Federal Agents Barren (Dominic Purcell of "Prison Break"), Conklin (Michael Paré of "The Lincoln Lawyer"), and Wheeler (Tyron Leitso) take over the house belonging to Ellen (Erin Karpluk) who has a son named Pidge (newcomer Cole Coker) who likes to make up tall tales. When the film unfolds, Deputy Reed (Ray Liotta) gets into a fight over his gambling debts. Reed's chief rubs him the wrong way about his drinking problem and then demands that he surrender his gun and gunbelt. Our trio of villains stashes Ellen, her son, and her father in the basement. The power has gone out at Ellen's house because her home repair father shorted out the electrics. Eventually, Reed comes to check up on Ellen, and all hell breaks loose. The villains capture Reed, recapture Pidge and the President steps up to the podium to speak as the assassins take aim.

I enjoyed watching it because it had a lot of well known actors in it as well as those I have not seen before. I thought Pidge (the boy)did a great job and made the movie especially at the end when he saved Ray Liotta. And how many can say that they "got" Dominic Purcel. The settings with snow and mountains were great. Yes, no one will win an award for their acting, I suppose, but it was enjoyable none the less. Don't know why that it did not start in the theaters. Thought the Mother and her Father did a great job. And Tyron has great. Dominic was a little freaky where as he could just be a loyal American who felt that he had a job to do for "the betterment of his country"