To me, this movie is perfection.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Admirable film.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I must be too much of a realist, but movies like this one make no sense to me. A woman comes back to her hometown when her mother dies and comes in contact with the town psycho (a former sheriff) who everyone is scared s***less of. Most everyone in this logging town is either gutless or a criminal. So the town nut-job has free rein to rape, steal, kill and generally be in charge. I kept thinking, since there is not much that is decent in this town, the mystery is why doesn't someone just put a bullet in the baddie's head and be done with it? But then, there'd be no premise for the movie. I also kept thinking why would actors the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Hal Holbrook and Ray Liotta sign on to do this movie? That's the real mystery.

It was ok. Nothing overly exciting. It should of been called Blackout because the lighting was so dark the entire movie, you could not tell what was going on. Bad.

An old man without a plan, a young woman without a plan, and a young man without a plan go into the woods unjustifiably confident of meting out justice to a psychopathic maniac. It's a formula movie that for some reason does not stick to the formula. We all recognize the set up (innocent woman terrorized), we all know what is coming (this one's got gumption and fights back) and we're all rooting for the payoff (cocky bad guy gets humbled) but in this movie, the payoff is so low key as to be almost non-existent. There's lots of driving in trucks through the woods, lots of old men telling tales about bad things that happened long ago and a lot of Anthony Hopkins standing around looking morose. Other than that, not much. It ends abruptly, and seriously looks like they cut the final 10 minutes from the story. A disappointing script for all involved, especially Hopkins and Liota. Their talents are not apparent here at all.

I was initially intrigued- the beginning is somewhat Stephen Kingish in the sense of it quirky characters and off beat location BUT it goes downhill rather quickly and all of the reminiscences of Mr King fly down the black way ..... Not even Sir Anthony himself can save this and we wondered if in the very last panoramic scene if Sir Anthony himself isn't pondering what the hell he has done in signing this contract. The acting is very generic and extremely predictable at best, the clichés are there and laughable, what could have been a good psychological thriller is NOT. Curiosity drew me to this film and indeed curiosity killed this cat.Blessings and Peace .