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When asked about a particular cinematic floater in which he had appeared, Robert Mitchum replied, "They pay you for the bad ones too!" I am assuming that Val Kilmer has adopted that as his personal mantra to get him through this latest phase of his career. So far in the past week I have watched Kilmer in The Traveler, Streets of Blood and The Thaw and all of them are terrible.Not his fault, of course, he's just an actor. He is forced to deal with the scripts he is given.

The Traveler shows promise at the start, despite the derivative nature of the script and the stereotypes that take the place of characters. Once the supernatural huggery-muggery begins that promise rapidly begins to fade. The story makes no sense. At first it is hinted that Kilmer is the ghost of a wrongly killed man and he is going to enact revenge on the deserving occupants of the police station a la High Plains Drifter. If the script would have stayed with that angle it might have produced an interesting film,if only on the simplistic and preachy level of an old Twilight Zone. But the pernicious influence of M. Night Shyamalan on a whole generation of screenwriters forces the offending scripter to try a big twist at the end and--a common failing with gimmicks of this type--the big reveal is absurd and makes no sense. It also invalidates everything that came before in terms of logic or coherence. Ah well, better luck next time.

I just signed up to Netflix and whilst scrolling through the horror section i came upon this movie.I always find characters who refuse to reveal who they are or what their motivations are always fascinating.I think the film is succinct and there is no unnecessary filler to pad it out.In essence it is basically a haunted house horror film,but the haunted house in question is a police station.There is plenty of gore in this film,but i think its justified in the sense that what the perpetrators of the offence did, deserved to have grisly terminations for there guilty deeds.The film is succinct and has no unnecessary filler,i can wholeheartedly recommend this film to any horror fan without question.Just like to add,do people give this film one or two stars just to look clever or smart, because it doesn't impress me very much.The new blood sport,ripping a movie to shreds for no discernible reason....very sad people.

While watching this movie, the storyline kind of reminded me of another movie and was somewhat similar - a 1973 western called "High Plains Drifter" with Clint Eastwood. Both actors were great in their leading roles, but it's kind of disappointing to see such similarities throughout the movie. It's like Hollywood couldn't think of something unique when writing this movie. At first, I thought Val Kilmer character was some sort of demonic entity placing a curse on the town, but was nothing more than a vengeful spirit getting revenge to those who killed him.

Well let me tell you, after reading all those negative reviews I tough this movie would be so bad, but I said to myself come on, rent it, I'm a fan of Val Kilmer, and to be honest I think the acting of Val Kilmer, Paul McGillion and Dylan Neal was very good, can't say the same for the rest of the crew! This movie is good, creepy, and Val does a very good job at being creepy as hell. I gave this movie a 7 stars review, because of general good acting, creepy atmosphere, gory death scene,and I had no high expectation for that movie, so it was a pleasant surprise. I do recommend people to watch this movie, don't be turned down by all the 1 star reviews.

ps: Watch it in pitch black with your girlfriend,and after the movie, whistle like Val, you're girlfriend is going to love you :)

Other reviews find this, cinematically interesting experiment, to be dull, pedestrian, and facile. I, on the contrary was stimulated by the droll, impassive - almost virtuoso performance of a man without an identity - Mr. Nobody - who appears suddenly and conveys portents of impending menace, to my mind, highly effectively. This existential anti-hero, apart from being obviously psychotic, also possesses both black and white magic - a schizoid Magus. Val Kilmer certainly brought conviction to the abstract demands of this role. While the movie is bound by the superficial conventions of the genre, I thought that it brought a certain flavor of dread that epitomizes the existentially hopeless predicament, with a piquant touch of drollery that so many jaded but sophisticated viewers find amusingly stimulating or camp in this genre. If you like Val Kilmer - who doesn't? - and the horror/ supernatural theme, then this is certainly worth watching!