Straw Dogs

Movie: Straw Dogs

Genre: thriller

Synopsis: David and Amy Sumner (Jamers Marsden and Kate Bosworth) have just moved to Amy’s hometown of Blackwater Mississippi.  David is a screenwriter working on a movie script and is something of a pacifist.  Amy’s return stirs up her old boyfriend, Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård) and his posse of rednecks. Charlie and his friends keep pushing David.  Finally the town trouble-maker, James Woods, provides the match that ignites the finale with the whole bunch doing their best to break into the house to kill them . . . when it turns out that if you push David hard enough, he will eventually push back.

My two cents: This movie had its moments, but not enough of them.  I thought the behavior of David and Amy was not too believable, given the circumstances.  In retrospect, I would have waited for this movie to hit HBO or Netflix.

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