Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

annevejb I found the DVD to be difficult to obtain, then it appeared at an Amazon outlet for a few months. Which does not mean that other titles will emerge someday, but maybe one or two.This did allow me to actually see it rather than just read the reviews. Most reviews are poor, but not all. If this is really 'straight to video' then I should expect it to be weak.I found it okay. Some aspects are weak. Sexual aspects seem tamed down a lot in order to get a censorship rating. Except that it is still rated 18, UK, and R, USA. The violence is middling strong.So, to me it is a fun action story. I prefer it to some action movies that did make the big screen and a wider than 4x3 DVD release.I liked the location, the hills above LA. There are other features that are partly set there and this is one of those that is good armchair tourism, to me.From other reviews, this appears to be a remake of a Canadian feature called Blackout. Not uncommon for respected features to get the remake treatment. A respectable practice. I do not object to maybe being in a minority that likes this particular result.The mood of the story, in some ways this reminds me of Griffin Dunne, a director who has a good way of dealing with actors and manages to draw out good performances from them.

sbunc92-3 The plot for this movie had some interesting possibilities but due to terrible direction, screen writing, and editing it became an incoherent mess. What is bad about it you ask? - for some reason there several bursts of quick editing montages that use a mix of film and video. It looks like something in a student in a film class would put together in their first try at editing. - Kristy Swanson's hair and wardrobe. Were they trying to make her look like a soccer mom? - the climax of the movie. There's a big showdown between the hero and the villain that takes place in the dead of night. 2 minutes later it is full on sunlit day. - the gang. What was it with their wardrobe? It looked like they were part of the gang from Death Wish 3.Just a terrible move.

crkzook An absolute pain in the *** to watch, it must have been a terror to act in - that is if the actors had any sense of what could be even loosely considered quality. This movie certainly doesn't qualify. Even my friends who watch trash for the fun of it turned it off after a few minutes. You kept wanting the bad guys to die in the first half of the movie and show you something interesting in the second half.The premise was, probably - it is hard to tell if it has one, the bad guys formed this gang, led by the guy who had been traumatized by the cops, so he hates them. The rest of the gang, including the toss away female had no reason why they were there, either in the gang or on this odd adventure to break into these expensive homes.As I learned in scriptwriting class, the first thing to keep in mind is motivation. If you don't have a decent motivation for your characters, the story will be a poor one. It doesn't help your telling the story if you just make up some motivation to simply have one. Like they did for this movie.I saw it on late night TV and actually cheered when the commercials came on. I hope I never have to watch it again.

The Yorkshire Rocket This film is utter bobbins. Smits is good but the psychos are poor. Any rationale behind the plot is impossible to fathom and as straight to video's go this is at the lower end of the scale. A "comedy" sidekick is brought in later in the film who then appears to have no particular role to fulfill within the action. Rubbish.