Standoff
USA 1997. Director: Andrew Chapman
Cast: Keith Carradine, Dennis Haysberit, Natasha Henstridge
Classic plot. After a failed raid against a Texas cult, five FBI agents, one deadly wounded, takes refugee in a solitary house on the countryside, surrounded by anonymeous crazy rednecks. So far so good. The rest of the plot we are spending with these characters arguing and shouting at each other, while the rednecks are shooting at them. Would probably have been a great theatrical play. If it was any interesting. It isn't interesting at all. There's no real build-up and no real dramatic tension and it's filled with pathetic ramblings about the apocalypse. It all leaves a strange empty feeling, as if it wasn't about anything at all. And there's no satisfying explanation for anything either, why the agents suddenly turn against each other etc. Perhaps it sounded great when writer/director Chapman (a writer for Disney) told the producers about it, but his movie is a waste of everyone's money. Only Keith Carradine manage to pull a fight as a ferocious southern agent. But then that has always been the curse of the Carradine family. Great actors, lousy movies.
USA 1997. Director: Andrew Chapman
Cast: Keith Carradine, Dennis Haysberit, Natasha Henstridge
Classic plot. After a failed raid against a Texas cult, five FBI agents, one deadly wounded, takes refugee in a solitary house on the countryside, surrounded by anonymeous crazy rednecks. So far so good. The rest of the plot we are spending with these characters arguing and shouting at each other, while the rednecks are shooting at them. Would probably have been a great theatrical play. If it was any interesting. It isn't interesting at all. There's no real build-up and no real dramatic tension and it's filled with pathetic ramblings about the apocalypse. It all leaves a strange empty feeling, as if it wasn't about anything at all. And there's no satisfying explanation for anything either, why the agents suddenly turn against each other etc. Perhaps it sounded great when writer/director Chapman (a writer for Disney) told the producers about it, but his movie is a waste of everyone's money. Only Keith Carradine manage to pull a fight as a ferocious southern agent. But then that has always been the curse of the Carradine family. Great actors, lousy movies.
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