Don't Look Behind You

I've seen the movie twice, and enjoyed both times. My parents watched it with me the second time, and they agreed that it was action-packed to the very end. I also thought the acting was very good, because the guy playing Eric Loftin was pretty scary, and he wouldn't be if there was bad acting. As to people who say its not like the book, well, has there ever been a movie that totally follows the book its based on?

Avoid this movie if you have better things to do. The acting was uncoordinated, mechanized and almost comic like (expression of fear, expression of anger, expression of happiness from the book etc...), the dialog was banal and everything else was clothed in this conflict of self-preservation and freedom: the wife knowingly risks her family's life, just to get some house diagrams uploaded, the teenage daughter terrorizes and endangers the family because her hormones are boiling, the father seems to be living somewhere up in the stars. In fact only the son shows some kind of normal behaviour. In fact the whole film reminded me vaguely of "American Beauty", but just trying pathetically to be an exciting thriller.

This movie is worthy of MSTK3 (RIP). The only people you can possibly root for are the bad guys who are just trying to help Darwinism along. The main bad guy, played by Dominic Raacke, is good as the villain and so are some of his cohorts. I was in Germany for a vacation and he is a famous actor in a long running TV crime drama called Tatort. In that series he's quite sexy and can act his pants off. That is why I rented the movie, I recognized his name. In this movie the actors just seem to be acting vignettes with no connection to each other. Raacke is almost jolting in that he seems to be one of the few who acts as if this is a movie with a plot. The perpetual whine of the children can be summed up as "We want our privileged lives back - who cares if we are being hunted by vicious killers and innocent others are being killed because of our stupidity". I mean you really hope they bite it by mid-movie. I suggest you use this film for a riff movie and at least have some fun with it.

I turned the movie on expecting crap for kids but when I actually go there I was impressed by how good and interesting it was. I loved it and would like to have it on tape. I think that if you have a chance to watch this film you should definitely go for it.

I read the book when I was in Junior High some years back, and to this day...it's one of my favorite books and have read it since as a college student even. I didn't even know the movie existed till one day about a year ago when it aired on TV. I was thrilled to watch it until, as said in another review, the end of the first 10 minutes. This movie made you hate the characters, made the plot bland, and the acting didn't do anything for it. I know they say the movie is NEVER as good at the book..but this could be the worse case I've ever seen. If you like the book..don't bother to watch,if you think you want to watch it. Get the book.