A Throw-Back to the Now Virtually Extinct, Except in Low-Budget Experiments of New-Bee Film-Makers.
It's a Deeply Emotional Exchange Between Art and its Audience.
Calm Desperately Demanding a Showcase in the Depressing, Devastating, Tragic Drama of Life's Tragedy with Evil Lurking Everywhere.
Calm is Personified by Kevin Costner's Wisdom from 30 Years a Lawman and the Aging Super-Star has Recaptured a Once Compelling, Lost, and Regained Maturity.
He is a Perfect Calming Partner to Diane Lane's Internal Rage from the Despair of Loss and Outrage of a Loved Little-One being Snatched and in Danger.
The Film Builds Tension by Way of Conversations Between the Salt of the Earth Couple with Costner's Dad and Lane's Mom about Wishing and Reality.
The Total Film Experience Reminds of Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" (1972) the way it Slaps You Awake in the Third-Act After Lulling Laments that Preceded.
A Beautifully Mounted Think-Piece that Snaps Serenity when Leslie Manaville Hosts a Dinner in Hell with Satan Sitting Firmly on Her Shoulder.
A Satisfying and Cathartic Suspenser Staged with Cinematic Seriousness that the Story Demands.
No Cop-Outs, its a Pay-the-Price Lesson that the Retired Cop Costner Knew All-Along that Someone would be Sacrificed for Their Action Against Evil.
He was Motivated by the Hope that it would be Him and Not His Beloved Wife to be Sacrificed on the Altar for the Sake of the Innocent.
It's a Deeply Emotional Exchange Between Art and its Audience.
Calm Desperately Demanding a Showcase in the Depressing, Devastating, Tragic Drama of Life's Tragedy with Evil Lurking Everywhere.
Calm is Personified by Kevin Costner's Wisdom from 30 Years a Lawman and the Aging Super-Star has Recaptured a Once Compelling, Lost, and Regained Maturity.
He is a Perfect Calming Partner to Diane Lane's Internal Rage from the Despair of Loss and Outrage of a Loved Little-One being Snatched and in Danger.
The Film Builds Tension by Way of Conversations Between the Salt of the Earth Couple with Costner's Dad and Lane's Mom about Wishing and Reality.
The Total Film Experience Reminds of Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" (1972) the way it Slaps You Awake in the Third-Act After Lulling Laments that Preceded.
A Beautifully Mounted Think-Piece that Snaps Serenity when Leslie Manaville Hosts a Dinner in Hell with Satan Sitting Firmly on Her Shoulder.
A Satisfying and Cathartic Suspenser Staged with Cinematic Seriousness that the Story Demands.
No Cop-Outs, its a Pay-the-Price Lesson that the Retired Cop Costner Knew All-Along that Someone would be Sacrificed for Their Action Against Evil.
He was Motivated by the Hope that it would be Him and Not His Beloved Wife to be Sacrificed on the Altar for the Sake of the Innocent.