High Ground

Don't listen to the naysayers. This is a really great movie! And getting to see Henry Thomas and John Voight act together was really special! James Oliver Wheatley plays the requisite evil man with aplomb opposite the hero Charlie Webber. A few places in the plot are predictable, but the acting is solid, the plot moves along at a good pace. It's a little bit of a thriller, a little bit of a mystery, and even a love story in the mix with the beautiful petite blonde actress, Katherine McNamara. John Voight is an American legend and it is great to see him continue to act and act well. Hope to see more of Henry Thomas in the future. Loved seeing that he still has his acting chops. This was an all-around great cast with a solid screenplay and a great plot. Director James Banford did a good job with the talent that he had to work with. Great flick!

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.

Jake Wilcott (Charlie Weber) takes over from his father Ezra Wilcott (Jon Voight) as the Sheriff of a small Colorado town. They have a new prisoner (Henry Thomas) who refuses to identify himself. Cassie Becker (Katherine McNamara) is the local waitress. In the opening scene, the mystery man is a witness for the prosecution targeted for assassination. A hit team arrives, but he turns the table on them. Big bad Marcus is coming with another team.

It's an action crime B-movie. The story is standard fare. There is some bad writing. Mostly, the villain is too casually killing too many people. It is all unnecessary and unrealistic. It's like Marcus is intent on putting a flashing light over this town and his head for no reason. The cops are never going to stop after a massacre like this. If the movie wants a big battle, it needs to build up to it. The diner is too much.

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.

That was one of the best movies I have seen in 20 years. Good American storytelling with a background of solid Unity of our people and nation under God with a Biblical moral Rock as the foundation, I thought completely lost. This movie developed the relationships clearly as the movie progressed, giving context to every moment that followed as we were not only watching for the adventure that was coming, but the interactions of sincere intimacy and responsible care each individual in the small and intimate town, for the others. There was also a realistic gruffness and sardonic grit that inevitably inhabits the hearts of some people and those were represented as well. It was a setting of neighbors who were bound by a unity this nation was built upon in its origins and has been relentlessly attacked with revolutionary war to completely remove so that disunity, brokenness, mistrust and fear replaces a sincere and deep love each for the other in responsible bonds which give us a natural and chosen desire to love our neighbors and to open our hearts to be loved by them in facing together the circumstances of life, both those circumstances we are prepared for and those circumstances we learn the most in about ourselves and others, those circumstances that are challenging or even catastrophic. One of the most prolific warfronts attempting to remove this ethos of unity as God designed us from our people, is movie making. It was so refreshing to see such a well done movie with the dual dimensions of true relationships with Foundation of commandment-based character and that strength and perseverance of Neighbors United as an extended family to face great evil. It was fantastic as they overcame evil men and their desire for only one thing, the satisfaction of their own Lust for Power, Pleasure and Pride at the cost of anything and everything from anyone who got in their way, as long as they're lust was satisfied for the moment. This great evil was overcome in the bonds of responsible loving relationship under God and it was awesome.