Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

BA_Harrison This remake of Sam Peckinpah's notorious 1971 thriller Straw Dogs transports the action from rural England to a backwater town in Mississippi, but sticks closely to the basic plot structure of the original, even emulating much of the dialogue. Even so, director Rod Lurie's retelling fails to come anywhere close to Peckinpah's film in terms of simmering tension, shocking rawness and unflinching brutality.The ways that this new film differs from the original might be small, but they have a huge negative impact on the film as a whole. Whereas both Dustin Hoffman and Del Henney in Peckinpah's film felt completely authentic, the two male leads in Lurie's remake-James Marsden and Alexander Skarsgård-are typical Hollywood hunks, clearly cast for their dashing good looks and bulging pecs. In contrast, the one character that is supposed to ooze sex appeal, David's wife Amy, is played by Kate Bosworth, who is nowhere near as hot as Susan George. And where the original film caused much controversy due to its graphic rape scene and savage violence, this one fails to raise eyebrows, the sexual assault wimping out on the nudity, the killings no more explicit than its forty year old predecessor.Plausibility is stretched to breaking point when Tom Heddon, played by James Woods, deliberately shoots the sheriff (as opposed to the accidental shooting in the original) and the good 'ol boys use their truck to break into the house (the wreck being rather incriminating evidence, methinks!).3.5/10, rounded down to 3 for insulting the viewer's intelligence by explaining the enigmatic title, as though the curious are unable to Google the meaning themselves.

generationofswine Have you seen it? No? There is likely a very good reason for that...it stinks.Like nearly ALL the endless remakes and reboots that have been plaguing movie goers for the past decade or so....all this is, is a heartless version of the original.It has no heart.It has no soul.It is a retelling of a film that we all love and cherish...and it adds nothing to the story. It improves nothing but the special effects--which held up very well over time--and in some cases belittles the fans of the original...particularly in the fact that they remade the movie at all, without adding anything clever to it.Like so many other remakes it is a hallow shell of the original.

adonis98-743-186503 L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both. Straw Dogs is your typical remake from Hollywood with great actors portraying roles that someone else did decades ago and although it's not a bad remake it still wasn't needed and it has some big plot holes for example his wife got raped and she didn't say anything to the police or her husband? Why? I don't know honestly then when he kills Charlie she is shocked but some minutes ago she murdered with a shotgun the 2nd guy who raped her because i'm pretty sure Charlie raped her too it's just that the scene was weird she kissed him, she pushed and she could easily escape from him when he took her underwear off why didn't she do it? Anyways as far as acting goes everyone was fine although Dominic Purcell was the best i was surprised to see Willa Holland in a role you know Thea Queen from Arrow? Anyways the remake of Straw Dogs is not exactly awful but it could be better.

rgaviator3354 I really enjoyed the original not because it came out first, but the direction quality was 10 X better! First of all it was Dustin Hoffman, enough said. That it was set in an English country side vs the rural south. The plots for both were essentially the same but there were enough twists in the remake to contrast the two films. Unfortunately those factors all play in the lesser entertainment value of the remake. The characters lacked personification and just didn't stand out well enough. Actually they were all stereotypical, all the way down to the sheriff. Although James Woods certainly is a classic actor, his role seemed underplayed given his acting ability. There were some good parts to the remake, such as the scene prior to and after the football game. I suppose if the remake was the original, then it would be a better movie. If you only saw the remake, do yourself a favor and see classic Sam P. direction.