jamesbarnshaw

i thought it was anyway, because twilight spends too much time brainwashing and imbuing youth with crazy ideas. This is the way werewolf films should be done, concentrating on the werewolf stuff & not using it as an excuse to turn it into a romeo and juliet rip-off. anyone agree on the whole twilight thing? good film, good mix of humour and horror. i found brigette very annoying at first, but then she grew on me as the film goes on. good Friday night film!!! cant think of anything else to say to make this ten lines long, so i'll mention the giant weed farm in that kids greenhouse. wish i had one of those. " Wicked, smoke us up!"

A lot of the reviews are moderately negative. I would have to agree to some extent with them. eg - it may be a run of the mill kidnap film. But for me James van der beek made this film very watchable indeed. I've grown up in the generation of Dawson's creek, so that was all i've really seen him in. Except from another good turn in The Rules Of Attraction. His performance in this was outstanding. What i consider a fairly realistic interpretation of a sociopath/kidnapper. But how do i know whats realistic for that character? LOL. Give this film a watch, it may have been done before, but van der beek makes the difference between bad and good in my opinion. 8/10.

As a few other reviews have stated, this is a different kind of costner. An earlier, less-famous costner. He was very good in this, i didn't see the end coming either. The fact that there isn't many well known faces in this film is what makes it so watchable, because you have no pre-conceived biases due to not knowing any of the actors. You just concentrate on the storyline & what they're doing, instead of thinking about all the other stuff they've been in. The music was brilliant as well. Some f*cking breathtaking cinematography on the mountain race scenes. A simple film, executed well and with a satisfying ending. Also took me a while to realise his teacher was the guard from "lock up" & the owner off McDowells restaurant from " Coming To America" LOL.