Too many fans seem to be blown away

That was an excellent one.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The most distressing movie I have ever seen. I would guarantee that this is the one movie that you wouldn't forget for a long time. Though the entire movie is wrapped up in a melancholic tone, there is something that sticks one to watch this movie till the very end. There are moments that give you hope in the plot, but it was the ending that makes you shell shock. I rate this movie high for the unique experience it offers. This is a very serious movie and is not at all recommended for those highly inclined to predictable happy ending regular movies. But the experience this one offers is worth a try.

My main takeaway from this movie, less present in other comments, is the ultimate sacrifice of David for his credo. In fact, he is carefully planning his death penalty end… just to prove wrong the "theory" that was used against their fight against the death penalty: Whenever they were bringing into attention cases of innocent people that were sentenced to death, those people were saved after all, sometimes just on the edge… but none was actually killed. So he plans the "perfect NO-murder" and also the TOO-late discovery of the truth… Just to prove their point: INNOCENT PEOPLE CAN BE SENTENCED TO DEATH AND KILLED, before the truth is revealed.

Having read many of the reviews, I fail to understand how so many can view this as a bad movie. I thought this was a thought provoking movie and certainly a lot better than what a lot of people are saying about it. Outstanding performances by Kate Winlset and Kevin Spacey. The story revolves around a Professor who is on death row for the rape and murder of a colleague. Kevin Spacey plays this role excellently. Kate Winslet is a reporter who is given the chance by Spacey to tell his story. I do not wish to spoil the ending for anyone who decides to watch this movie so suffice to say, to get this movie will need to watch it from the beginning and keep track of what is happening. Some things will happen early in the movie that don't seem to be important yet the end up being critical.

This perhaps one of the best movies that received so many poor reviews. Audiences responded to it favorably so I'm not sure what determines if this is a good film. I liked it while it's not without it's flaws. This film is about a college professor named David Gale who is on death row to discredit the death penalty. Gale, Kevin Spacey hatches and elaborate plan to have a terminally ill woman named Constance Harraway to have herself video taped with a bag over her head handcuffed to make it look as though she has been murdered. Bitsy Bloom a journalist played by Kate Winslet is investigating the story suspecting someone else killed Harraway played by Laura Linney. It's not until the end when she views the entirety of a video tape showing Linny's character committing suicide. This comes too little too late when David Gale has already been executed by the time Winslet's character get's to the prison. whuh whuh whaaaahh :(This is a rather contrived but interesting flick. In real life the main character Gale would have to be nuts to martyr himself in such a way to teach society a lesson about the death penalty. In real life it wouldn't prove very ineffective considering our society seldom tends to ever learn a lesson from anything. Usually we keep implementing the same flawed solutions to the same problem yielding the same failed results.