Bone Dry (2007)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Brett A. Hart

Writers:

Brett A. Hart (writer)
Jeff O'Brien (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Some secrets won't stay buried.

Plot:

Eddie finds himself being forced at a gunpoint, by an unseen assailant, on a dark and brutal journey through the harsh terrain of the Mojave desert...

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Luke Goss	...	Eddie
Lance Henriksen	...	Jimmy
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister	...	Mitch
Dee Wallace	...	Joanne (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
Jennifer Siebel Newsom	...	Wife (as Jennifer Siebel)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carl Buffington	...	Marty
Richard Larsen	...	Cook
Julia Self	...	Connie
Chad Stalcup	...	Price
Hudson Thames	...	Son

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

Greece:100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | New Zealand:R16 | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

Bone Dry

Quotes:

Jimmy: [over the radio to Eddie] You have a compass. All you have to do is walk north.

North of Mojave

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

(There are Spoiler) Strange to say the least the film "Bone Dry" keeps you guessing to just what's going on between the two stars in it Eddie, Luke Goss, and Jimmy, Lance Heriksen, for almost the entire movie.

Eddie driving through the bone dry and sun soaked Mojave Desert, the hottest and lowest place in the Continental USA, is suddenly knocked out from behind and then after regaining consciousness is put through the ringer by his, for the most part, unseen and slightly crazed antagonist Jimmy. Jimmy in spite of his mindless and sadistic actions later turns out to be a man with a plan. A plan that Jimmy had in the works and perfected over the last two years.

We get a number of hints in the film to why Jimmy has it in for the likable and what seems like harmless as a kitty cat Eddie. The hints are so confusing and disjointed that the film has to go into high gear, and add about ten more minutes, to explain to its audience just what's going on! P.S Before you see the movie "Bone Dry" do everything possible to avoid it's pre-released trailer. "Bone Dry's" movie trailer in fact gives away the the surprise ending before you even get a chance to see the movie!

Forced, by a gleeful Jimmy, to find his way back to civilization before he falls prey to the wild animals, rattlesnakes & scorpions, or blistering heat and thirst of the unfriendly Mojave Desert Eddie, with a compass and walkie-talkie that Jimmy provided for him, treks his way north. North to Southern California and the main desert highway, where he can hitch-hike a ride, leading into the very populated golden state.

Insane from thirst and being tortured by Jimmy, mostly from afar, Eddie makes it almost home when he runs into Marty,Carl Buffington, a love-child or hippie-like weirdo whom he first mistakes for Jimmy. It later turns out that the harmless looking Marty is anything but hippie-like when Eddie runs into his two friends big bad and black, at 6 foot 5 inch and 230 pound, Mitch played by Tiny, because he's so big, Lister and his big mouth but pea-brain partner Price, Chad Stalcup.***SPOILER ALERT From THIS POINT ON*** These two bumbling but very dangerous guys are trying to make a living by dealing in coke and doing, together with their double-talking advance man Marty, a not so good job at it.

It just about then, after Eddie's encounter with Mitch & Price, that we get an inkling to what the heck the movie is all about, and just what's Jimmy's involvement in all this, and it's somewhat of a letdown. It' not that the ending of "Bone Dry" is not effective but were put through so much by Jimmy's crazy antics that we by then completely lost any sympathy for the guy. And that's in spite of what he went through that lead him commit the inhuman and despicable crimes all throughout the movie!