johney-brooks The top review wants explanation on every little thing on the actual events linking to the texas killing fields and its horrors. Probably expecting some gore on how women are getting killed and tortured etc. If you are looking for the cheesy horror films with violence porn, this is not it, but if you want to watch a well played intense drama, and by itself its a great movie, with some excellent performances. Characters well built that one feels connected to, and thats why you keep watching the movie, until the very end. And YES ZERO VIOLENCE PORN OR GORE, so you can watch it with your wife and 14 year old AND maybe even educate them on the horrors of society. It feels real and you can learn something from it.

trublu215 The Texas Killing Fields pits two Texas lawman against a ruthless killer/child abductor. Directed by Ami Mann, the daughter of legendary director Michael Mann, this film stands as one of the more disappointing films I've seen. Filled with soapy performances and convoluted plot devices, the film amounts to nothing more than a direct-to-video mess of a film. Giving the potential talent behind the camera, this stands as a pretty disappointing addition to the police procedural. Ami Mann tries to balance the story between a group of backwoods hick killers and the detectives trying to arrest them. While the story is a clichè and has been done MANY times before, it still doesn't take the thrill away from the chase...the script does that for you. While the film is based on a true story, that's not even enough to make you suspend disbelief in certain scenes, especially with a scene near the end of the film that is so wildly ridiculous that anything that could have been used to its credit vanishes as soon as the scene ends. However, in Ami Mann's defense, she has HUGE shoes to fill especially with the crime drama genre that her father has perfected over his colorful career. The Texas Killing Fields gives the feel of a Michael Mann film in style and camera movements, but as far as a story goes, this script needed a few more re- writes if it wanted to leave a lasting impression. Despite the disappointment behind the camera, the real magic from this film comes in the performances. One thing Ami Mann can do is direct her actors. Featuring an all star cast made of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastin, Jason Clarke and Chloe Grace Moretz, there isn't one performance in this film that is lackluster. While every actor acted their ass off in this film, the real prize winner of the whole bunch is Jason Clarke. Clarke is a sadistic backwoods killer with a stone cold expression throughout the film. One scene between his character and another under an overpass is particularly well acted. If there is any reason at all to watch this film it is for the performances. Overall, The Texas Killing Fields is a bland police procedural that wastes its amazing cast on a bland script that never truly clicks.

Genivieve DeClare The best films are able to immerse us their world. The best of the best make the world they evoke inviolate, complete and seamless. For a film about the pervasiveness of evil this reality becomes uncomfortably claustrophobic, confining us to a place so dark and disturbing yet so familiar that every sound, every movement is a potential portent of doom, every character menaced and menacing with no respite from the tensions that pervade this toxic but very real place. The film is only a police procedural in so far as there are flawed but dedicated detectives trying to hold the line against a pervasive climate of poverty, hopelessness and desperation where basic decency is at a premium and life is cheap. To allow one's self to be drawn in, to give one's self over to such a place of everyday horror is an act of courage on the part of the viewer. It is the kind of commitment that the best films demand. The rewards are spare. We come out with a visceral sense of the limits of civilisation itself. We are more aware by what a fragile thread our comfort and security depends. How near we are to chaos. The menacing place this film creates is the protagonist and it's antagonist all at once. The players ably acquit themselves in their respective supporting roles. The story is simple and logically concluded. The 'good guys' win but the menace remains. Theirs is a fool's errand.

ZULFIQAR RAJA It surprises me as to how many quality films end up with poor ratings on IMDb. This leads me to think that many people who visit this site do not understand cinema. This serial killer flick based in the fields of Texas feature strong performances, tense direction and an atmosphere you could cut with a knife. There are shades of great serial killer movies like 'Seven' and 'Zodiac' but what makes this so impressive is that it has been directed by a lady. It's a hard movie which is uncompromising and successfully manages to get into the head of the viewer. There are a few scenes so brilliantly acted, I watched them again a few times. The film fuses the Texan culture into the movie and characters so well with the violence more disturbing then gruesome. This is a movie for those true admirers of cinema and not just popcorn loving buffs who are overloading themselves with too much rubbish.