Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

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Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

scoup The film sets up nicely with a misdialed phone call to a serial killer in progress. I like the idea because it is fresher than the "I know you are alone" call. However, in hind sight, this leads to the most probable ending (which the movie has) because otherwise the motive for the serial killer's pursuit could become far fetched and unlikely.The acting was okay. The driving force of the film is the desire to find the identity of the serial killer and the motive.There are definitely many areas for improvement including script, set, special effects and ambiance. There was a somewhat too light tone of acting; maybe if the script demanded it, it would not have seemed noticeable.

gloria723 I recently saw the movie "Long Distance" and I agree with the other person (Mr. Boston), the plot was set up in excellence. I normally read between the lines but this movie took me by total surprise again like "Usual Suspect" or any other movie that is a suspense thriller would have an ending predictable this was brilliantly written. You just can't expect a part 2 because it's just some movies that are self explanatory and this is one of those movies. At the end you really thought who the killer was would be revealed. By the way can someone tell me on the soundtrack who song the song "long distance" it was a woman but I couldn't quite make out the name? gloria723@sbcglobal.net....

fluffy_orange_monster I rented this movie from a local store and wasn't expecting much as in my opinion there are very few modern thrillers that live up to the older classics and Long Distance was no exception to this rule.A potentially very good storyline is ruined by poor acting and a terrible score consisting of about two instruments!! In a movie like this music is vital in creating suspense but unfortunately this film had no suspense. The best part of the film was the ending as it did have quite a good twist. However even at that point I still didn't feel that Nicole's character was acted well enough. I would have enjoyed the film and it's a shame that it had to seem like a low-budget amateur film.

jmbwithcats Long Distance is about a distraught grad student, Nicole Freeman (Monica Keena from The Devil's Advocate and Dawson's Creek) working on her thesis. A no longer a teen not quite a woman type whose unfaithful boyfriend Chris left her and mother figures it's her fault. Who feels estranged from the rest of the world for reasons unknown, likely due to the breakup. When trying to call her mother, she accidentally misdials the number of a strange man named Joe (Kevin Chapman from The Boondock Saints, The Cider House Rules, Blow, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", Mystic River, 21 Grams, "24") Wow this guy has been in a lot of good stuff.When a policeman (Ivan Martin from.. umm.. well, nothing I recognized), anyway he arrive the next day to inform Nicole that a murder has occurred from the house of Joe, we begin to piece together a puzzle of terror as she tries to stop him from killing again, as he makes his way across the country to her doorstep.Conceptually though the movie is interesting.Winding right when you think it's going to go over the edge of mediocrity, a car climbing a twisting mountain at night, encased in fog. They bring in a profiler (Tamala Jones from Booty Call, Head of State, and One on One), to help catch the killer known only as "Joe". She talks of Freud, freedom, and the shadows we cast, a choice of words I found intriguing.The sound effects sounded like maybe they were chosen by Roger Waters in a small EMI studio, circa 1968.The music is really innovative and ambient. The kind of movie I'd own the soundtrack to but never the movie.The Achilles heal of Long Distance is the dialog, but when you figure it out it starts to make more sense why the film works so well conceptually, but not emotionally. Symbolically, but not literally.