tomkofof Disturbing,provocative,suspenseful,courageous and a plethora of other adjectives won't prepare you for this story. Whatever side of the issue you may be on,this movie will speak to you. Needless to say Kevin Spacey is remarkable as are Winslet and Linney. Why is it so provocative? It reminds us of just how human we all are. Why so suspenseful? We never know for sure what is going on. Why so disturbing? The subject mattter,especially within the context of this story brings us to an understanding of our world many would like to ignore. Why so courageous? Watch!

SnoopyStyle Reporter Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet) is asked by reclusive Texas death row prisoner David Gale (Kevin Spacey) to do interviews in his last four days. Gale was a sincere anti-death penalty organization Deathwatch member and college professor who raped and killed fellow member Constance Harraway (Laura Linney). Disgruntled student Berlin (Rhona Mitra) seduced the married David and filed a rape charge. His wife took their son away. Berlin ran off. Despite the charges being dropped, he lost his job and became a drunk. In the present, Bitsey and her chaperon Zack Stemmons are followed by a mysterious cowboy.There is a big twist in this movie. It is ultimately a cheat because it wouldn't work politically. The premise is twisted to the extreme until it stops making sense. The worst part is that it feels like a cheat. The movie could have said something poignant about the death penalty but in the end, it says something about the simplicity of this argument.

inioi Committed film on the death penalty.The plot is absolutely believable and keeps you stick to your seat during the whole movie, since it has some "thriller features".The acting is superb, Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney...and the supporting actors are also great: Gabriel Mann, Matt Craven, Leon Rippy...The point is in the end of the movie, which i will not reveal.Everyone has to take their own conclusions.Visceral and shocking, this movie will not leave you indifferent.Enjoy it.9/10

Krypto19749 This perhaps one of the best movies that received so many poor reviews. Audiences responded to it favorably so I'm not sure what determines if this is a good film. I liked it while it's not without it's flaws. This film is about a college professor named David Gale who is on death row to discredit the death penalty. Gale, Kevin Spacey hatches and elaborate plan to have a terminally ill woman named Constance Harraway to have herself video taped with a bag over her head handcuffed to make it look as though she has been murdered. Bitsy Bloom a journalist played by Kate Winslet is investigating the story suspecting someone else killed Harraway played by Laura Linney. It's not until the end when she views the entirety of a video tape showing Linny's character committing suicide. This comes too little too late when David Gale has already been executed by the time Winslet's character get's to the prison. whuh whuh whaaaahh :(This is a rather contrived but interesting flick. In real life the main character Gale would have to be nuts to martyr himself in such a way to teach society a lesson about the death penalty. In real life it wouldn't prove very ineffective considering our society seldom tends to ever learn a lesson from anything. Usually we keep implementing the same flawed solutions to the same problem yielding the same failed results.