Andi C.

To me, this isn’t a film about the murders… it’s a film about how a boy gets co-opted into participating in something so horrific and violent. That’s its power as a film.

The stupidest revenge movie I have ever had the misfortune of watching. Dad came off as more psychotic than grieving. Mom's character was drawn about as convincingly as the drapery, given she also lost a kid (seriously: they should have just killed her with the kid and made his weirdo Unabomber thing more understandable). The 'training' in the lead up to all the retribution action was laborious/long yet deeply shallow (cool: he can do some more pull ups!). The poor marksmanship of the bad guys tested incredulity even when prepared for it as it is such a given in these films. And the actor's facial expression is set to "I smell a really bad fart" for the whole film.

I very nearly left about 2/3rds of the way in because parts of it were so uncomfortable and shocking to watch. I'm glad I forced myself to stay and to look at humanity's dominion of animals square in the face. We should all see this film for that reason alone.