Straw Dogs
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 41 Ratings
- Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Kate Bosworth
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Summary:
The new Straw Dogs follows Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner, who moves with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, leading to a violent confrontation. (Sony Pictures)
- Director: Rod Lurie
- Genre(s): Thriller
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Positive: 8 out of 29
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Mixed: 12 out of 29
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Negative: 9 out of 29
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88Rod Lurie has made a first-rate film of psychological warfare, and yes, I thought it was better than Peckinpah's. Marsden, Bosworth and Skarsgard are all persuasive, and although James Woods has played a lot of evil men during his career, this one may be the scariest.
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80While Lurie could have gone lighter on the symbolism, he ratchets up the tension with deft intelligence. He's not just making a thriller but a horror film, and we feel his own fear in every scene.
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60There's no matching the sinister village faces in Peckinpah's cast or the psychological acuity of his scene-making, but Lurie shows himself man enough for the material.
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38The film has one sly, ominous touch Peckinpah would have liked. David is writing a script on the defence of Stalingrad, a battle that swallowed two million lives. Otherwise, the new version is a vigilante action film bereft of subtlety or restraint.
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Positive: 9 out of 11
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Mixed: 1 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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