Now granted this is a revenge movie, so there are going to be things that are sitting outside the realm of reality. And this movie is no exception. But the lack of realism is not the main problem with this film. The entire set up is stupid. Mr. Hume (Bacon) decides to stop at the seedy little gas station, about two seconds after being accosted on the road by some speeding thugs. Any normal person would have driven down the road a bit for a better opportunity. It was not like he was going to run out of gas at that very second since the "low fuel" light just came on. He could have easily gone 15-20 miles down the road with no problem. No suburbanite in their right minds would have stopped there.
Bacon is OK, as usual he delivers a solid performance. The rest of the cast however is not very strong. Without exception they all seem rehearsed and forced and none of the lines or character development seem real. For this I can only blame the director since every actor cannot stink.
The police are portrayed as bumbling idiots. The entire story about how it was Hume's word again the killer's is idiotic. The person who hit the killer with his car would have certainly been able to put the killer at the store and if the CSI team could not find ONE drop of blood on the killer they were not very good. Then the two cops watching the Hume's house were killed, having their throats slit while they say in the car. First off this is silly, no cops sit there laughing with their windows open when they are protecting a family from killers.
Then the killers are apparently so poor at....um....killing..... that they leave the Hume family for dead after 3 shoddy shots. And why stay at the house at all? Why not leave the state altogether? Who sits there and waits for the killers to come and kill them? The fact that Bacon becomes a super killer himself, while not entirely plausible is not that hard to buy. The fact that he goes to the gang members father to buy guns is too much.... Is this man the only illegal gun dealer in the city? I don't think so. And as a pistol owner myself who goes to the range regularly I can tell you that most people, shooting for the first time can't hit anything from more than a few feet. It takes a good 100 rounds of shooting until you get a good accurate feel for the gun where you can hit anything with regularity. They could have made the entire story more plausible if they either showed Bacon taking some practice shots, or even if they had said he was once in the military or anything like that.
The plot of the movie is thin too, but again for this type of movie it is not a big deal. The movies moves at a good pace, there is not a lot of lag time but you still finding yourself seeking the end. Killing the wife and 2nd kid was enough to send Bacon on a killing spree but did they really need that? The death of his older son alone was enough to send Hume on a vigilante hunt. So the mere threat alone should have been enough. It seemed the killing of his wife was only for shock value and nothing more....
All in all it was a paltry attempt at a revenge film. As My Chemical Romance said "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" and seeing as how this movie has a very good overall score I guess that stands even if the movie is not very good.
Bacon is OK, as usual he delivers a solid performance. The rest of the cast however is not very strong. Without exception they all seem rehearsed and forced and none of the lines or character development seem real. For this I can only blame the director since every actor cannot stink.
The police are portrayed as bumbling idiots. The entire story about how it was Hume's word again the killer's is idiotic. The person who hit the killer with his car would have certainly been able to put the killer at the store and if the CSI team could not find ONE drop of blood on the killer they were not very good. Then the two cops watching the Hume's house were killed, having their throats slit while they say in the car. First off this is silly, no cops sit there laughing with their windows open when they are protecting a family from killers.
Then the killers are apparently so poor at....um....killing..... that they leave the Hume family for dead after 3 shoddy shots. And why stay at the house at all? Why not leave the state altogether? Who sits there and waits for the killers to come and kill them? The fact that Bacon becomes a super killer himself, while not entirely plausible is not that hard to buy. The fact that he goes to the gang members father to buy guns is too much.... Is this man the only illegal gun dealer in the city? I don't think so. And as a pistol owner myself who goes to the range regularly I can tell you that most people, shooting for the first time can't hit anything from more than a few feet. It takes a good 100 rounds of shooting until you get a good accurate feel for the gun where you can hit anything with regularity. They could have made the entire story more plausible if they either showed Bacon taking some practice shots, or even if they had said he was once in the military or anything like that.
The plot of the movie is thin too, but again for this type of movie it is not a big deal. The movies moves at a good pace, there is not a lot of lag time but you still finding yourself seeking the end. Killing the wife and 2nd kid was enough to send Bacon on a killing spree but did they really need that? The death of his older son alone was enough to send Hume on a vigilante hunt. So the mere threat alone should have been enough. It seemed the killing of his wife was only for shock value and nothing more....
All in all it was a paltry attempt at a revenge film. As My Chemical Romance said "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" and seeing as how this movie has a very good overall score I guess that stands even if the movie is not very good.