Really anytime you see a movie with a cast this good, and varied you have to ask yourself why it would go straight to video even in today's less than stellar theater market. The over all movie that you get is well written, and mostly acted really well. It is right around the hour, and five minute mark that you see the lower quality film work, or a lack of good equipment for action shots, what ever the case it looks cheap, and degrades the movie quite a bit, and often enough to notice. Matt Dillon is really good, (I kept thinking that 1983 was the year of the Outsiders, and Rumblefish, and how fitting it was that this movie was set in that time, but that is just how I get) Willem Dafoe narrates a nice yarn to open, and close the show, and plays a really good raw role of a Cop trying to fight against the big corruption. There are some good shoot-out's, though they tend to feel rather predictable. I would recommend this to most fans of action, with a bit of build up, and suspense, and to those that Enjoy watching fools get what's coming to them. Yep, this one is violent, and not for the kids, or dreamers, but it is worth seeing.
Review of Bad Country
