This has got be one of the most boilerplate, indeed run-of-the-mill movies i have ever seen. This comes close to The Room and Tycus on my personal list of Worst ever. I watched this cos I saw Tideland, Case 39 and the Dead Like Me opener.
But Ferland is severely underused.
Anyways, the story is so predictable, it ain't funny no more. We could see that it was the judge from like a mile away. It isn't that the Native American female sheriff as a villain would have been too un-Politically Correct (okay, frankly, it WOULD have been too un-Politically Correct, even for these toxic Teabagger times), it's not that it could never have been the cute sympathetic ex-boyfriend, who's been burning a candle for Rena/Maggie for TWENTY years, it's not that it could never have been the abused son of that nasty father, it's not EVEN because the Judge Landers character is the only older white guy in the story! Nah, it is because William B. Davis is the X-Files' Cigarette Smoking Man, and HE ALWAYS PLAYS THE CRIMINAL!!! Sigh. Hollywood movies are soooooo predictable .......
The Melancholic Alcoholic.
But Ferland is severely underused.
Anyways, the story is so predictable, it ain't funny no more. We could see that it was the judge from like a mile away. It isn't that the Native American female sheriff as a villain would have been too un-Politically Correct (okay, frankly, it WOULD have been too un-Politically Correct, even for these toxic Teabagger times), it's not that it could never have been the cute sympathetic ex-boyfriend, who's been burning a candle for Rena/Maggie for TWENTY years, it's not that it could never have been the abused son of that nasty father, it's not EVEN because the Judge Landers character is the only older white guy in the story! Nah, it is because William B. Davis is the X-Files' Cigarette Smoking Man, and HE ALWAYS PLAYS THE CRIMINAL!!! Sigh. Hollywood movies are soooooo predictable .......
The Melancholic Alcoholic.