Barracuda

An American thriller; A story about a young British woman who comes to Austin, Texas, to find her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father, and before long doubts are erased and chaos takes hold. There is an intriguing ambiguity to the stranger who rolls into town. Pent-up anger, pain, and defiance bubbles below the surface but never froths over into anything palpable, and refreshingly we are spared verbal conflict and manipulation and simplistic resolutions. The story creates empathy for the young woman as she tries to establish a connection to her new, foreign family. However, while engrossing and edgy, it fails to produce a vice-like grip on the viewer by the end. Instead, we get graphic violence in place of motive. Still, it is a smart, tense movie with two good performances, which make it just about work.

This got listed as "Horror" on Amazon, it's not even a thriller. The movie is terrible...When it's over all you say is "I WASTED 1 HR AND 40 MINUTES ON NOTHING" Since NOTHING in this movie happens....

Talk about a wild ride of a heckava movie! This is a story about people who they think is good might often be the ones that they think is best to find out when they think they is not in the same goodness form of the people in the other room. The director guy is a new guy that has him some good ideas about the girl in his movie. who is a great acting girl! My mom and I watched this movie together on the last Friday and she did not see it all but says that it was good. It be the sacry movie for all of the movie and in the end. Please watch with your lights on!

But that twangy country music and the dancing without rhythm rednecks was too much to bear, so FF was a blessing. It also came in handy with the bar scene with those two derelicts trying to make a move on Sinaloa and her sister who did the right thing for a change and sent these two packing. Sometimes these writer just cannot make a movie without certain idiocies incorporated into them.

I do however agree that the writers might have suffered from writers block when it came to the last 1/3 of this flick. I understand how Sinaloa would despise her half-sister's mother, she was a Biotch with a capital B. But the fight and strangulation was a bit much. And unexpected, I was more in line with something that would awaken Merle from being walked over by everyone in her immediate circle, and especially her mother followed by the gold digging fiance Raul who was more concerned about the finances and not her mental health.

Good movie, but did have some let downs in the writing department.

The acting was good as was the camera work. The directing was also good. The film while very professional was very weird. It failed to capture excitement and frankly, it could have been switched off at any time. It appears to have been written by someone with a sick distorted mind. If you do weird sick, this is a film fore you.