High Ground

One cannot help but feel pity for the actors. From beginning to end, one feels a persistent sense of embarrassment on their behalf. Of course, they must earn a living and find work. But one wonders just how dire their financial circumstances must have been to compel them to collaborate with such an appallingly inept director and writer.

The direction is astonishingly poor, even worse than the already weak writing. Must the assailants, by any measure, be portrayed with such staggering stupidity, their assault on the ranch so laughably uncoordinated and devoid of even the most basic strategic logic?

Here we have a principal antagonist in pursuit of a key witness, presumably someone who could implicate him in a series of capital offences, likely condemning him to life imprisonment. So far, so good. In the course of this pursuit, he indiscriminately kills nearly everyone he encounters, presumably to eliminate potential witnesses. Fair enough. But then he inexplicably spares the life of a woman to subject her to a fate "worse than death," as he puts it (his meaning being: now you have to live with the guilt of having seen all your friends die because of you). But of course, her survival now renders her a direct eyewitness to mass murder, capable of testifying and securing the villain's conviction, even if he would succeed in killing the original key witness he is chasing.

The sheer lack of narrative logic and intelligence on display is staggering. One is left to marvel: how does a script of such implausibility and incoherence even secure financing? Who, in their right mind, would fund such a spectacular heap of nonsense?

One can only hope that the actors emerge from this debacle with their reputations intact and are offered material more worthy of their abilities.

This movie is horrible, the actors horrible, the script horrible, plot horrible, and Sharon Horrible. Jake is the worse example of sheriff I've ever come across. The only good thing about this movie is Katherine and the community camaraderie. My dog could have directed a better movie with a iPhone. Please I beg of you save the time I will never get back. I've never written a review before, but this movie is two packs of donkey butt. These people were literally using guns from the civil war. I would rather not say much more, but there's a character limit and I"m 30 words shy. Everyone involved in this project should be jailed immediately.

Loved the heartfelt relationships between the characters. The action was very cool. Good triumphs over evil. The bad guy is on the money. The Sheriff and his posse are fantastic. I recommend this movie if you're looking for a story worth heart mixed with action, ruthless people and gun play. From beginning to end, it'll keep you right there glued to the screen. Hope springs eternal. The tension is palpable. The father and son joining forces to defeat the assault on the town is dead on. The mysterious prisoner keeps is guessing. The strength of the woman is outstanding. You'll love this movie. I did.

This is the type of movie you watch when you are bored and don't care if a film is well done or half-baked. High Ground is made with all the quality of a Hallmark or Lifetime movie which means it doesn't even seem like a real movie. I don't know which is worse, the acting or the plot. While Jon Voight is a good actor and he's OK in this, it's a shame that the star of classics like Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance has fallen to this. The actors who play the bad guys in this are actually better than the ones playing the good guys. The script is terrible and actions happen for seemingly no reason. Overall the plot doesn't make sense and there isn't a shred of anything realistic here. Many years ago good guys vs bad guy films were made as Film Noir B level movies that have since become classics. A movie like this is a one time watch because it's slightly entertaining in how poorly is is done and then it's completely forgotten.

We used to call movies like this straight to video. Lots of cliches, low to mid production values, forced acting. Oh, and terrible writing. Like, straight out of some kind of AI script writing program that a human went over to try to make it seem real. Something to watch when there's nothing else to do and you want to have a laugh at something that wasn't intended to be funny. But, its got Katherine McNamara in it and she's always fun to watch. Jon Voights in it because he let everyone know he's a republican and an actors gotta eat right? The bad guy is so over the top that you really feel how bad this movie is when he starts smirking and mugging for the camera. The hero is bland and I can't seem to even remember what he looks like when he goes off screen. He'll come back on in the next scene and I'm like, 'Oh right, that's what he looks like.' Just not a worthwhile movie to watch, but I'm sure it will do great at filling up air time in our non-stop entertainment universe that we find ourselves living in now.