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Not a great movie!

posted 14 years ago by mail-2775
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This movie isn't great, but I love convicts and it shows how two of them can solve 200+ years of racism and expose corruption at the same time.

I don't highly recommend it, but it has some good acting in it, mostly by the great Barry Corbin and Ed Lauter.

It also has a few laughs with the bizarre entrance of a redhead who is sexy in a bigoted, murderous sort of way.

This isn't Citizen Kane, but the people who want to know about it deserve more than the sole post it had garnered in 24 years, so I put this one up as the second comment.

[–] intexor 12 years ago

I am amused a bit by your topic title which made me assume you were totally going to trash this movie ;-)

But I agree with your assessment. This is not a great movie but I was also not bored by it. It entertained me sufficiently and I had the right expectations. I would say, it's a good TV remake movie.