Eye For An Eye

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Summary: Fred Goldman, your movie has arrived!
Review: This movie just goes to show what is wrong with America, and the joke of the law system. Kiefer Sutherland plays a scumbag who rapes and murders an innocent teenager. Despite the fact there is overwhelming evidence that proves he did it, he is set free. Now does any of this sound familiar??? That is when the mother (Sally Field) tries to get even in her own way, since the law failed her. If Fred is reading this, know that you are not alone, and I suggest you take an example for getting justice on your sons' murder. This movie is a realistic portrait of how the justice system in America is a total joke, and how lawyers and judges are thoughtless and spineless. It makes you think, why did Sutherlands' lawyer want him to get off unpunished when she knew he did it? Does she have no shame? What is in it for her? Sutherland did not even hire her, she was provided by the state. When the judge sees the overwhelming evidence that proves Sutherland did it, he should have a heart and say that just because the defense was not provided with the evidence des not mean that he is going to let the guy go free, when that evidence conclusively proves that man as the killer. But of course, he does'nt. It is a movie that goes to show, the law system in America is a joke. And tell me does anyone honestly think O.J. Simpson did not kill those two people? This just shows what you have to do to get justice, and that no one with a job with the law has any decency or shame. Its true, because someday they will make a movie on how monsterous the employees of the IRS are.

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Summary: Extremely moving and graphic movie~
Review: This movie was a frightening way of showing what goes on today in America. Thousands of women are raped each day, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. Right now, even as I speak, a woman is being raped. Even though this movie is very violent, it gets to the point. I have to say, I CAN'T STAND Sally Field, but she did do a great job, and I have to admit, she is a great actress. I saw this movie for the first time on CBS about a month or two ago, and I really wanted to see it, because Olivia Burnette, who plays the daughter who is raped, was in it, and she is my all-time favorite actress. I believe that she, as well as the rest of the cast has done a wonderful job. This movie may seem a little harsh, but it's just a reminder of what can really happen in life. ...Thanx :o)

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Summary: LOVED IT
Review: Though I haven't been able to watch Kiefer Sutherland in anything since I saw this movie, I loved it.

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Summary: PURE EVIL AT IT'S FINEST!!!!!
Review: Wow, Kiefer Sutherland delivers one of the most powerful performances ever to come to the big screen. I always loved Kiefer's films, and always thought he played a great villan. Freeway, A Time To Kill, and even in A Few Good Men he played a nasty s.o.b., but never had I seen him this downright horrible. He is such a brilliant actor and can play a wide range of characters(as we have seen in the tv show 24). Kiefer plays Robert Doob in the film Eye For An Eye, a white trash serial rapist who prays on women of all ages. Doob is a truely evil person and has no conscience what so ever, which makes him all the more scary. The movie opens with us being introduced to the McCann family. Karen(Sally Field) and Mack(Ed Harris) live in a big house with their two daughters Julie(Olivia Burnette) and Ashley. They are getting the house ready for Ashley's birthday party. Julie is left alone in the house and is putting up decorations, when Karen calls. Karen tells her that she is going to be late because she is stuck in traffic. Then the doorbell rings, and Julie tells her mom to hold on and opens the door. The scene that follows is quite upsetting, and is where we are introduced to Robert Doob. Doob brutally attacks Julie while Karen is still on the phone and can hear everything. The physical violence isn't that bad since the scene jumps around a lot, but the emotional tension is unbearable. I think that the helpless feeling Karen experiences as she runs up to every car around her to ask for help, and for someone to call the police, is what hits us the hardest. The vision of the balloons floating away from inside Karens car, out the open door, then to the sky, while Doob is raping and killing the helpless girl is, in my opinion, a subliminal reference to the end of innocence and the loss of life. It is something that you won't soon forget. The story moves foward to an investigation of the crime by Det. Denillo(Joe Mantegna), as Karen and Max try to deal with what has happened. The Det. calls them one morning and tells them they have a suspect in custody, Robert Doob. But when he goes to trial, he is dismissed on an error of the state. But before he leaves the courtroom, he assures the McCann's that he is definately responsable by mimicing their daughter's stutter saying, sasasasa...sorry. After that, Karen becomes obsessed with catching him in another crime so he could finally be brought to justice. She begins to follow him, and at one point see's him peeping on a lady and urinating on her lawn. She goes to the Det. to tell him that they have to pick this guy up, but the Det. tells her to stay away from Robert Doob and that there is nothing they can do right now. Karen then seeks help from a couple men at her counciling sessions. They are a vigilante group that takes justice into their own hands, when the system fails to. They teach Karen to shoot a gun and set up the hit for her, but she has to pull the trigger herself. At first she says she can do it, but then she backs out when she finds out that a friend of hers at the meetings is really a undercover FBI agent investigating vigilante activity. Then she finds out that Robert Doob has been talking to her other daughter Ashley. She goes to his apartment to send a message and finds a ceramic cookie that Ashley had made at school in his dresser. So she trashes his apartment in an attempt to lure him to her house for a final showdown. I won't tell you how the movie ends, you have to see it for yourself. I didn't mention Ed Harris much because he really has a small role in the film, although he does a great job with the parts he has. Everyone in this movie is excellent, even Beverly D'Angelo who plays Dolly Green, Karen's friend at her job, is great. I hope to see more of Kiefer Sutherland playing nasty roles like this in the future, he really was one of the most heartless characters I have ever seen...

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Summary: PURE EVIL AT IT'S FINEST!!!!!
Review: Wow, Kiefer Sutherland delivers one of the most powerful performances ever to come to the big screen. I always loved Kiefer's films, and always thought he played a great villan. Freeway, A Time To Kill, and even in A Few Good Men he played a nasty s.o.b., but never had I seen him this downright horrible. He is such a brilliant actor and can play a wide range of characters(as we have seen in the tv show 24). Kiefer plays Robert Doob in the film Eye For An Eye, a white trash serial rapist who prays on women of all ages. Doob is a truely evil person and has no conscience what so ever, which makes him all the more scary. The movie opens with us being introduced to the McCann family. Karen(Sally Field) and Mack(Ed Harris) live in a big house with their two daughters Julie(Olivia Burnette) and Ashley. They are getting the house ready for Ashley's birthday party. Julie is left alone in the house and is putting up decorations, when Karen calls. Karen tells her that she is going to be late because she is stuck in traffic. Then the doorbell rings, and Julie tells her mom to hold on and opens the door. The scene that follows is quite upsetting, and is where we are introduced to Robert Doob. Doob brutally attacks Julie while Karen is still on the phone and can hear everything. The physical violence isn't that bad since the scene jumps around a lot, but the emotional tension is unbearable. I think that the helpless feeling Karen experiences as she runs up to every car around her to ask for help, and for someone to call the police, is what hits us the hardest. The vision of the balloons floating away from inside Karens car, out the open door, then to the sky, while Doob is raping and killing the helpless girl is, in my opinion, a subliminal reference to the end of innocence and the loss of life. It is something that you won't soon forget. The story moves foward to an investigation of the crime by Det. Denillo(Joe Mantegna), as Karen and Max try to deal with what has happened. The Det. calls them one morning and tells them they have a suspect in custody, Robert Doob. But when he goes to trial, he is dismissed on an error of the state. But before he leaves the courtroom, he assures the McCann's that he is definately responsable by mimicing their daughter's stutter saying, sasasasa...sorry. After that, Karen becomes obsessed with catching him in another crime so he could finally be brought to justice. She begins to follow him, and at one point see's him peeping on a lady and urinating on her lawn. She goes to the Det. to tell him that they have to pick this guy up, but the Det. tells her to stay away from Robert Doob and that there is nothing they can do right now. Karen then seeks help from a couple men at her counciling sessions. They are a vigilante group that takes justice into their own hands, when the system fails to. They teach Karen to shoot a gun and set up the hit for her, but she has to pull the trigger herself. At first she says she can do it, but then she backs out when she finds out that a friend of hers at the meetings is really a undercover FBI agent investigating vigilante activity. Then she finds out that Robert Doob has been talking to her other daughter Ashley. She goes to his apartment to send a message and finds a ceramic cookie that Ashley had made at school in his dresser. So she trashes his apartment in an attempt to lure him to her house for a final showdown. I won't tell you how the movie ends, you have to see it for yourself. I didn't mention Ed Harris much because he really has a small role in the film, although he does a great job with the parts he has. Everyone in this movie is excellent, even Beverly D'Angelo who plays Dolly Green, Karen's friend at her job, is great. I hope to see more of Kiefer Sutherland playing nasty roles like this in the future, he really was one of the most heartless characters I have ever seen...