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2.6/10   877 votes
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Writer:
Pavan Grover (writer)
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Release Date:
27 February 2004 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Nothing can silence pure evil. more
Plot:
A woman battles an unspeakable terror. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Reviews:
could have used a better editor... more (60 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Pavan Grover ... Jesse Mowatt
Michelle Wolff ... Littlefield
Mark Voltura ... Littlefield's Partner (as Marc Voltura)
Marco Rodríguez ... Cesar (as Marco Rodriguez)

Dina Meyer ... Diana Purlow

Lance Henriksen ... Jack Pitchford

Miguel Pérez ... Guard #1

Dennis Hopper ... Warden Earl Blakely

J.D. Garfield ... Federale Colonel
Angelo Jaramillo ... Flunky
George Michael Tapia ... Corrections Officer
Audra Wise ... T.V. News Woman #1
Kim Trujillo ... T.V. News Woman #2
Michael Crabtree ... Lieutenant

Anthony Dilio ... Guard #2 (as Dilio)
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Additional Details

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Rated R for strong violence and gore, disturbing images, language and some sexuality.
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Brazil:108 min
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Trivia:
The electric chair, featured prominently in the movie, was last used in Texas for executions in 1964. In 1977, Texas approved execution by lethal injection, and in 1982, carried out its first execution by such means. more
Quotes:
Warden Blakely: I want to kill you a hundred times over! more

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8 out of 13 people found the following review useful.
could have used a better editor..., 23 July 2004
Author: vhsiv from washington, d.c.

Just a quick comment...

This is one of those films that I caught about 15 min. late on late-night cable. That missed 15 made all the difference. The clunky exposition - 'Tonight', '3 Days Earlier', etc., etc. - played no part in my first impression, and the film played as a straight jailhouse drama, with LESS ludicrous pseudo-science, fewer superhuman feats perpetrated by the arch-villain.

I was so intrigued that I programmed my Tivo to catch the West Coast feed of the film, and that was the good-bad mistake. This film would have been far more effective if they had eliminated the backstories at the beginning of the film and the wannabe 'Another Heaven' (2000) aspects of the Jesse Mowatt character. The director and the editor overplayed their hands there.

The pluses for this film are that the leads - Dina Meyer, Lance Henrickson, Jeff Fahey and even the writer/actor Pavan Grover turn in acceptable performances. I was especially impressed by Meyer here, in her capacity to convey sympathy, compassion, authority, fear, etc. Dennis Hopper's contribution however, is execrable: his lines are terrible, and he chooses to read them like a 'tough love' southern caricature.

The 'metaphysically-enhanced serial killer' is an overcrowded field. It has been done to death. If anyone is out there writing such stuff, it is best that they limit their palette - too many psychic powers and sci-fi gadgets can put a serious hurt on one's story. Otherwise, this one is well-enough executed, and ironically a full cut above the junk that's habitually ground-out by the SciFi Channel.

If it's a late night or early morning, definitely worth biding one's insomnia by...

5/10

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