Red Team

This movie was a fun ride! There were good twists and turns, and at times it was pretty scary. I particulary enjoyed the directing and cinematography as the shots were very cool and the whole mood was dark and menacing - particulary the opening shots and the chase through the woods at night in the snow. This is definitely a movie worth seeing.

Blatant rip-off of the star chamber and not a very good one.I can safely say 'I am definitely not related to the producer', like the previous reviewer, wonder how much his cousin paid him!. Pretty surprising how the likes of Fred Ward and C.Thomas Howell can get involved in something so very predictable and stupid, must have had a spare couple of weeks with nothing else on the table. 3/10

They weren't ready to make this movie when they filmed it. It so much reminded me of a great idea in the midst of thinking it through, like a rough draft of a novel with all the flaws glaring and ready to be fixed. But they filmed it anyway, unrepaired. There wasn't a single surprize, which this kind of movie demands, but they were so close to delivering one with an adjustment here and there. Patrick Muldoon was not the actor to take this lead. We can't buy him as the hero, he just doesn't convince us he's who he's supposed to be. We get faces and expressions and action filmed from an impossible to participate angle. The idea of a serial killer taking out serial killers is an exciting premise with much promise but the writer's couldn't deliver, or whoever was responsible for the final product, the exceptional film this idea deserved. This is a notion that should slip in there with the Silence of the Lambs. We should squirm and fear the scene that comes next. We shouldn't see the G rated climax coming from a mile away, or the plot twists so far in advance we don't mind going to the fridge while they unfold. Fred Ward, who can be a lot of fun, was horribly miscast. This was a really great idea hurried into production and what could have been a riveting thriller fails to make us twitch. I hope they take this idea and run with it again, with more octane. It's rock solid idea. Rock solid ideas shouldn't go limp.

"Who is killing the serial killers?" states the quote on the cover of the video box, a quote that promises a twist in the tired serial killer genre. However, the answer becomes quite clear in the first few minutes! Then for about 3/4 of the movie we have to sit though yet again the various cliches that we typically see in this genre, with no real new twist to them - not really badly done, but tired and familiar. Near the end, there is an intriguing development with an alliance of sorts, but unfortunately it's dealt only at face value at most, and is finished with after a few minutes. The production values are pretty decent, and C. Thomas Howell (cast against type) is surprisingly good as the serial killer the bland Muldoon pursues. But overall there's really no real reason to seek it out, especially if you're burned out on serial killer movies like I am. Maybe if it comes on TV when you're bored and have nothing else to do...

I was super surprised by how Good this DTV film really is!!!! Well made.

For a low-budget film that went straight to the shelves of Blockbuster video way back in 2000, well it's an excellent serial killer Thriller that could rival big budget "A list actors" stuff & i actually prefer these B-movies over most mega budget films as we get the more interesting actors & they're given the headlining of the movie instead of some way overrated idiot like "Tom Cult Cruise" of Boring Brad Pitt" for example, the typical bland actors that take up Hollywood films.

Here we have a great cast filling out this Classy suspenseful flick with the extremely underrated PATRICK MULDOON, I've always known him from the Sci-fi action Classic Starship Troopers, here Patrick is really good & so suited to his role of a young F. B. I agent who is naive to how things happen within his department & is like a fresh-faced hotshot wannabe type but not cocky just wanting to do something big & be apart of "The Red Team" this is the most exclusive department to be apart of in the force as these guys really take out the trash, if you know what i mean?, this team is ran by the department boss played by an excellent TIM THOMERSON (A legend of B-movies) who is a tough & no-nonsense type of guy & basically runs a team of Vigilantes to execute the scum that get off or get out of prison & i agree with this to point as these are evil people that the world would be better without but at some point you know it will come to an end sooner or later & then you become the badguy. Tim is excellent in his very juicy role & we also have another great of Cinema FRED WARD!!! I love this guy & of Course grew up watching him in Tremors 1&2, he's also on top form here as a wheelchair bound investigator who is Mentor & friend of Muldoon's Weary Detective & another B-movie great is C. THOMSON HOWELL who gives a creepy performance as a suspect serial killer who does alot more within the story than you could ever imagine, unique really & we have another great of Cinema the sexy CATHY MORIARTY (Casper, Cop Land, Raging Bull) she's also excellent here in role as the partner & voice of reason to Muldoon. This is a really fantastic cast of excellent talent here in this superior Serial killer Thriller that has plenty of exciting moments & action scenes & twists & a bleak wintery setting that sets the dark mood of the movie.

A serial killer is killing off serial killers, how Cool is that? Patrick Muldoon is trying to solve the case & many things start happening. This is a classy Thriller & one that has so much quality to it that it punches way above it's weight & comes off a knockout.