lenard_poon It is frightening that there are cold blooded heartless killers and ignorant insecure people that follow them. It was gut wrenching watching a young family with their baby and a newlywed couple executed in cold blood by cowards. Used to Hollywood movie scripts, you can't help but anticipating the innocent people somehow escape and overcome their captors. Having lived in the Mohave desert, the screen can not come close to capturing the constant oppressive heat that can kill a person without water in hours as well as invoking heat stroke along with confused thinking. If Tison was in anything like Sheriff Joe's outdoor prison, I'd do anything to escape that hell hole.

madyasho This review will irritate some people I know and I don't care. The movie was great by the way and Robert Patrick is awesome. It's a much better version than the one made in 1983. I just want to look at it -being a real event took place 70s- from a different perspective. Just think about from Lyonses' perspective -the family they killed-. So this poor fellow stops in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere to HELP some poor kid. He could have driven on, think about the family he is supposed to protect right? No, he chooses to stop and help. Why? Probably because he has certain religious teachings settled in his mind saying God would love people helping each other(and not necessarily hate stupid people, does He?) or/and some similar ethics and moral came from the society he was raised into, saying 'you need to be good to other people' ... and he choses to be good. He chooses to be good to be reckless and stupid because highly possible that when acting in such high sprit -even though against all odds-, God or Karma or something would protect him. No, in the next minutes he sees(or even doesn't) all his loved ones get killed by vicious people they didn't know before. The only reason we should be good is because with good people this crazy world is going to get better, otherwise it'll be a chaos and we will not like it. It's NOT because some stupid book or books written thousands of years ago said so. Being good is good but that should not sacrifice our rational thinking.

lavatch This true crime drama about the 1978 prison break of murderer Gary Tison plays like a standard made-for-television drama.At the start of the film, the character of Tison comes across as a wise guy spouting off one-liners like "B. F. Goodrich is a good tire," just as the tire is about to go flat on the getaway car. Tison's escape from the Arizona prison was not due so much to his planning or the assistance he received from his fawning sons. Rather, the prison conditions were lax and the officials in charge were incompetent. After Tison and another inmate, Randy Greenawalt, escape, Tison demands complete loyalty from his sons, who become accessories to murder after Tison and Greenawalt kill six innocent people in cold blood.The filmmakers tried unsuccessfully to raise this tawdry crime drama to a biblical level. The film opens with a quote from Exodus about wrath of the God of the Old Testament: "I, the Lord Thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me."Unfortunately, the scope of the film was not biblical, but filled only with pathos coming from a dysfunctional family. Tison was undone when he disrupted his escape plans to search for his brother whom he wanted to kill. The filmmakers probably want this to appear like the story of Cain and Abel, when Tison asserts that "Blood calls to blood, and blood answers back." But the final result was no more than the saga of a demented loser, willing to sacrifice the lives of his sons to save his own hide.It was the brother's tip about the Econoline truck driven by Tison and his boys that sealed his doom. The true motto of the sleazy Tison was not about "blood," but about cowardice, when, in dire straits, he yells, "Every man for himself!" So much for blood, family values, and paternal concern for his sons!

santiagocoronado I saw the movie in the opening weekend in LA and likely one of my favorites of the year. It's action packed, and the fact that is based on a true story makes it all the most interesting. I loved it! Robert Patrick and Alex MacNicoll have such good chemistry but I was not expecting the ending.. without spoiling it, you must see it, you would not have seen it coming!