This movie which is based on a real family and their desire to uphold their religious beliefs clearly proves that we do not have the freedom of religion that we believe we do after all.
This family hurt absolutely no one while living on their mountain in their self-built cabin. The movie portrays the mother, Vicki, to be a little on the wacko side, however, the real life Vicki was a very educated and intelligent woman.
The movie, however, does show how the father, Randall Weaver, was clearly entrapped by the government by sending an under cover "spy" to befriend Weaver over a period of 3 years, finally selling him a sawed off shotgun to help support his family of 6.
Although some of the acting itself was not exactly great, the overall movie was fairly close to the TRUE story of this family whose 14 year old son, as well as a loving mother of 4 were killed by FBI agents.
I highly recommend reading The Ferderal Siege at Ruby Ridge...In Our Own Words, written by Randy and Sara Weaver themselves, which give the truthful account of what happened during those awful days in Idaho.
This family hurt absolutely no one while living on their mountain in their self-built cabin. The movie portrays the mother, Vicki, to be a little on the wacko side, however, the real life Vicki was a very educated and intelligent woman.
The movie, however, does show how the father, Randall Weaver, was clearly entrapped by the government by sending an under cover "spy" to befriend Weaver over a period of 3 years, finally selling him a sawed off shotgun to help support his family of 6.
Although some of the acting itself was not exactly great, the overall movie was fairly close to the TRUE story of this family whose 14 year old son, as well as a loving mother of 4 were killed by FBI agents.
I highly recommend reading The Ferderal Siege at Ruby Ridge...In Our Own Words, written by Randy and Sara Weaver themselves, which give the truthful account of what happened during those awful days in Idaho.