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I just couldn't buy the 16-year-old character being played by a 26 year old woman.

This movie actually had stuff going for it. Sure, there were no name actors, some weak acting and ineffective editing. But writer/director Josh Doke built interest and momentum to help you look past that. As you follow along as Doke builds to the story to a roiling crescendo, he thanks you by pulling the rug out.

After abruptly ending, numerous ends were left hanging and you couldn't help feeling ripped off. Thanks Mr Doke for another waste of time and disappointing piece of Hollywood crap.

A low budget flick that works! Using my movie pass before they go bankrupt. Good performances by the Sheriff and Ergo... some plot holes but kept me entertained with a minimum of groans for cliches...

Director did a great job of making movie look high budget. Extras were the stars. A little slice of Americana. 7 might be generous but it had the feel that someone really wanted to make a good movie and gave a s#%t!

Whatever. Hardly ever does the motion picture industry portray having any clue about rural and small-town America, and this was by no means any exception. Within the first few seconds the intent was already clear: rusty, squeaky oil rigs and grey old abandoned buildings accompanied by sinister music, and I'm already braced for what was sure to come and did. Small farm towns, according to movie people, are full of angry disaffected losers, drunken violent young white males and crumbling businesses and institutions, and not much else. The reference to the new motel "out by the interstate" pops up over and over as a sort of otherwise needless symbol of progress and the resistance to it. I guess it never occurred to the writers that such a place would be staffed with locals and that the interstate highway isn't some foreign country or alien invasion in their world.

Nor are farmers stupid, nor are custom harvesters some anonymous gang of dangerous drifters, nor does anybody ever cut corn in a 160-acre center-pivot field by themselves. That combine doesn't hold the grain any longer than it takes to chute it into the grain cart running alongside, driven by a second inevitable witness to the dead body but absent from this story, nor does the grain cart hold more than about a quarter of what it takes to load the semi-trailer parked at the end of the row, driven by a third witness who also never appears in the story nor do either of the two essential pieces of machinery. Center-pivot farming is a high-dollar operation backed by hefty finances and performed by intelligent, worldwise men and women who typically have been around this big old world outside their home towns more than you can possibly imagine, and who have spent lifetimes learning everything from crop expertise to heavy equipment mechanical skills, and how to hire reliable contract harvest people that for the most part they have worked with for many years and know very well.

Plus, the Angry White Male narrative is alive and well here: for good guys/gals we have a female sheriff with violent ex-husband issues, a sixteen-year-old pretty motel clerk with daddy-abandonment issues and a neanderthal boyfriend, and near the end a grim-faced female federal officer with a black male boss, etc, etc. Of course all the bad guys are white males, except for the other ones who are inept cops and fat business owners stuck in 1955 by the look of them. The waitress jokes about everything being as obsolete as the old film camera in the story, the sheriff drives a truck of a vintage I haven't seen in years as if nothing else is available, the boyfriend totes an old break-action goose gun no modern country boy would be seen outdoors with, and on and on and on.

If you're an urbanite looking to have your biases about where your food comes from confirmed, you're sure to be vindicated here. If on the other hand you have ever actually spent more than an hour beyond The Last Exit in your lifetime, this is so uninformed and unrealistic it should have been billed as comedy.

Though the picture offers nothing spectacular, neither does it stumble. Moments of excellent camera work frame a solid story told by skilled players. Entirely believable, suspenseful if not surprising, and - most importantly for this kind of effort - never overdone. I recommend it for a spare hour or so.

The acting is horrendous and very bad. I had to turn off after a few minutes.

Solid. True to the place and the characters. Well-cast. Excellent cinematography. Well-crafted. Josh Doke has a bright future as both a writer and director. Josh has a real feel for the story-telling; in a time where so many movies hang on one chase or explosion after another, his pace suits this story and its location. He deftly takes you to the High Plains, to a world where the sheriff knows everyone by name and murders are not a daily occurrence.

If you think the beginning of this movie stinks, just wait until the ending. How do movies like this even get financed?

This movie would have been really good if the charachter Ergo was fully understood at the end. We see a quick photo that shows he was a somewhat highly decorated ex-military individual. The problem is, the movie does not show us what his real mission was! Was he an undercover Law/Gov. Agent or a once hero gone bad? The movie could have added 15 minutes more to play that out and give the audience a little more solid ground of information to work with while keeping a degre of mystery.

No. The cast is reading their lines from cardboard cutouts in another room. The dialogue is so childish and so unreal you may think the film takes place in Dummyland rather than Goodland. Yet another lame over-reach by yet another clueless "writer/director". Everything here is unwatchable and meaningless so there can not be a coherent review of something that just does not exist; namely this film has nothing, nothing at all. Writer/Director films should be outlawed.

I'm not sure how this movie got such good ratings! Bad acting. Horrible script. Boring. Waste of $$$!

I loved this movie! Hollywood is putting out mostly junk these days. Alleged A-list actors who are, well, pretty awful with a few minor exceptions. In Goodland, every name listed in the end credits are people I've never heard of. And that's a wonderful thing!! Fresh faces, fresh acting! Something "the big guys" don't care about because they don't care about their viewers. They'll spend $100M + on a "message movie" that nobody cares about. They make $125K on a $100M movie and they don't care, because they got their message out. Pay attention, Hollywood! These actors were great! Hungry actors who get a big break like this are sincere, and it comes through in playing their roles. They WANT the movie to be great, and everyone puts their all into it.

The topic of the movie is one we've seen many times in movies and TV shows, but in Goodland, they make it work. It's fresh and I won't give away any spoilers, but they throw a few extras into the story which is what makes it great! Who is the guy checking into the hotel? Why did he choose that town for his project? And watch how determined this petite, woman, small-town Sheriff handles things. She's very smart and it's almost as if the viewer (that's us) is supposed to think that maybe she's more experienced in solving crimes than just your typical, small-town sheriff.

Give this movie a try. You'll like it!

The sheriff, the 30 year old teenager and the head bad guy were such bad actors it was comical. The story just meandered and petered out. They threw in a dumb twist that went no where. This felt like a junior college film project, Thankfully it wasn't a long drawn out film. You could probably watch paint dry and be more entertained.

The acting was bad, the writing was bad - I don't know how this could have actually made it to production.

I love movies with a country atmosphere, sheriff and maybe a little weird, but without taking away the meaning of the story. In this one we have at least one smart and alert sheriff, which can't be said about his deputies, all of whom are rather goofy.

It is true that the character of the young girl could be better, but if you look closely, she is very young. They exist in real life, jajaja... with an adult life from a very young age. As it is in this case.

The story is not boring at all, on the contrary, it maintains a strange tension until the end, very well done.

If you like Fargo, of course muuuch better quality in terms of plot and quality, you will like this too.

This is a low-budget indie film that looks it, and a better, stronger cast probably could have added more "sizzle". That said ...

The cinematography is the most engaging part of the film, and may be the real star. It's not flashy or effects-heavy. No obvious CGI or fancy cutting. Just honest scenic filming that shows the town, the environment, some representative inhabitants, and some outlying territory.

Overall, I've seen better acting in adult community theater and worse, which is to say that the acting, while adequate to the story, will not hit you like a shot of caffeine on a sleepy day.

Some of the dialog feels unnatural to the ear, some of the characters' motivations seem vague, and the key elements of the story reveal themselves in the last half hour while still leaving some room for assumptive guessing at the end.

This movie isn't a waste of your time if you like good camerawork, visions of a slowly-suffocating smalltown America, and a slow plot that eventually mostly gets where it's going; mostly.

A final mystery is left dangling, but with enough suggestion that the answer seems mostly obvious enough to offer a mildly frustrating closure.

A good movie for idle curiosity watched on a personal low-energy night

Not sure why some reviewers criticized the acting. It was really good. Nice mystery that keeps you guessing. I enjoyed it a lot. The ending was kind of sudden, but after a bit I figured it out.

This movie starts out pretty well and holds your interest all the way through. Good cast, good story, fair dialog, great cinematography. So, kudos for that -- as far as it goes.

However, this is a movie without an ending. It's one of those movies where the writer/director knew what the ending meant, and thought he would be clever "implying" the ending; but he remains the only person alive who knows that the ending means. For everybody else, there wasn't enough information, so now we feel like the whole thing was a waste of time.

Maybe he was setting up a "Part 2" ? But at this rate, it will never be financed. Well, maybe it will, since part 1 probably shouldn't have been financed either, but it was. In any case, I'd love to see an explanation as to what happened. If all he was saying was "The U.S.A. is a crime-ridden hell hole," we didn't need this film to tell us that. Just read the papers.

Horrible movie! It would be a bad made-for-tv movie. Poor acting, poor sound, poor plot development. Complete waste of time. I would gladly pay that 4.99 to not have to sit through that again.

Sloppy casting of this "16 year old girl." Movie could have been better. Acting was pretty dry