Driftless

Unwatchable. I spent years camping with NPS and also as a volunteer with NPS. Badly made film. I believe this was a real School project from some college. But ended up as a 8th grade production.

The actors do a good job, and the setting is visually pleasing, but those are the only positives.

I worked in the job and agency this film pretends to portray and they got just about everything wrong, including the silly size of the name tags! The producer either did little to no research, or ignored it. This is a HIGHLY unrealistic portrait of this type of work. Just to name a few problems... The uniform, the duty gear, the lack of body armor, the conversations, the lifestyle, the viewpoints, the cultural conflicts, the downtime, the politics, the diversity in staff, the charming and G rated politically correct language, and more. Real Law Enforcement Officers have to have a dark sense of humor to keep their mental health intact, and frequently cope by making light of the difficult situations they are forced to come front all day. Where is that in this fantasy film?

This script is clearly the product of someone who guessed what doing this job must be like, then made a silly movie to force a perception of reality on unsuspecting viewers.

People who work in that field are MUCH less diverse than the workforce portrayed. The problems they encounter are basically all the same problems encountered in any other police job (domestic violence, poverty, drug use, DUI, theft, and tons of basic traffic violations, to name a few). Basic field level officers do not have interactions or influence over topics encountered in this movie. That is silly and make believe. In reality, these officers would spend almost the entire shift doing things like writing tickets for littering and entering closed areas, and the rest of the time doing associated paperwork and mandatory trainings.

All you need to know to avoid this movie is what people who wrote positive reviews have said (pay attention to their grammer and writing quality). If that sounds like a good time, good luck.

I appreciated the fact that it didn't get graphic in the movie -- no dead bodies, flowing blood, slow motion killing. The storyline is a good tale, with so many vignettes going on, from Magas to supremacists to stoners to naive hikers to survivalists and then the backdrop of the heartless bureaucrat ignoring the river pollution. Well-structured. The striking drone shots were nice interludes. The best was the campfire scene--that was sort of the climax of the movie, actually, where Nova came to a realization. And a nice plot twist at the end! Good acting; well-edited.

The driftless area is so beautiful, but this movie is literally the worst thing I've ever seen. Period. Such horrible stereotypes and pathetic scripting. I cannot believe it got produced. Soooooooo BBBBbBbAAAAAD!

Go visit the area. You will love it. You will love the people. Skip this awful, garbage movie. I cannot say enough how bad this is.

It ended up being simply laughable and so bad my husband and I had to see it through to the end. The least they could have done was show more of the area. That would have at least been interesting.

The Mississippi River coupled with the insanely lovely rolling hills make it.

The House on the Rock was also weirdly worth the time and money.

If you've come here for a Fourth of July movie, you made a mistake. If you came for cringe political/environmental propaganda that makes CNN look like a top-tier production in comparison, you might be in the right place.

Do yourself a favor and watch The Bay instead, which actually implements a movie around its message instead of vice versa. Not that this should be classified as a movie so much as non-actors who cannot act simply reading aloud their cringe scripted lines. You will likely see more talent in your local High School plays than this monotonous propaganda trash.