Review of The Price We Pay

I almost didn't watch this film because I trust the IMDB ratings and typically don't bother with anything below a 5. I'm very glad I ignored the misguided ranking and watched it, mostly cause it starred Stephen Dorff and Hirsch is good, too. I expected really low budget boring, but got slightly higher budget and VERY entertaining. The band of crooks work well together and create tension from the very beginning. Then, if that's not enough, we get a surprise twist and the film takes a turn. Yes, the genre turn is much like From Dusk Til Dawn, but then again that took the idea from Psycho (for all you haters on here who act like cinema experts but haven't seen anything before the '80s). They give us characters to root for and characters to hate, and I like how they turned a character we hate (Hirsch) into a character we root for. How come Barbarian (good flick) is rated high yet this film with a similar style is rated so low? It's because people were told to like Barbarian and have no opinions for themselves. If you like horror, you'll dig this.