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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Pavan Grover (writer)
Release Date:
27 February 2004 (USA) more
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 Comments:
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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Rated R for strong violence and gore, disturbing images, language and some sexuality.
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Brazil:108 min
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Australia:MA (TV rating) | Germany:18 (cut) | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:M18 | USA:R
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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
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Jesse Mowatt:
[while being beaten down by the guards] This give you a hard-on, warden?
Warden Blakely:
Why? You losing yours?
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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