Richard Dane is a small town frame builder from East Texas who is forced to kill a man in self-defence.
He then meets Ben Russel, an ex-con and the father of the man Dane shot, who is hell- bent on avenging his son's death.
But small town corruption and paranoia turn these enemies into unlikely allies, as the two guilt stricken fathers begin a search for truth, aided by Dane's tough minded wife and a pig-raising detective from the backwoods of Houston.
Before it's all over, they uncover a bigger secret, darker and more dangerous than any of them could have imagined......
There is one point in this crime thriller, that I thought it was just going to be a retro remake of Scorcese's version of Cape Fear. And if you've seen this film already, you will know the scene I'm talking about. And up until this point, its a pretty straightforward, generic thriller.
But then there is a change of events, and it turns into a whole different movie, and for some reason, setting the film in 1989 really aides the film, as there are certain plot points that today's technology would ruin.
The three leads are brilliant, Johnson just bringing that much needed cockiness to a really bleak movie, and Shepard, just being totally believable as the unhinged ex-convict.
If has a very mystical feel to it, almost fantasy like, and there are times when you really think it was made in the eighties.
If you like thrillers that go insanely off course halfway through, then this is a little gem.
He then meets Ben Russel, an ex-con and the father of the man Dane shot, who is hell- bent on avenging his son's death.
But small town corruption and paranoia turn these enemies into unlikely allies, as the two guilt stricken fathers begin a search for truth, aided by Dane's tough minded wife and a pig-raising detective from the backwoods of Houston.
Before it's all over, they uncover a bigger secret, darker and more dangerous than any of them could have imagined......
There is one point in this crime thriller, that I thought it was just going to be a retro remake of Scorcese's version of Cape Fear. And if you've seen this film already, you will know the scene I'm talking about. And up until this point, its a pretty straightforward, generic thriller.
But then there is a change of events, and it turns into a whole different movie, and for some reason, setting the film in 1989 really aides the film, as there are certain plot points that today's technology would ruin.
The three leads are brilliant, Johnson just bringing that much needed cockiness to a really bleak movie, and Shepard, just being totally believable as the unhinged ex-convict.
If has a very mystical feel to it, almost fantasy like, and there are times when you really think it was made in the eighties.
If you like thrillers that go insanely off course halfway through, then this is a little gem.