Stephen Summers

This movie was surprisingly realistic to the point where you go through really uncomfortable life situations with the actors and you feel the discomfort in your own body and emotions. This means the actors and writers did a good job. The jumbled juxtaposed timeline of different snippets of their life portrayed NOT in normal sequence was Brave and creative but ultimately may have detracted rather than added to the audiences enjoyment of the film. Should be R rated. Some scenes too intense for kids imho.

Good looking stars try to cover up a poorly written and directed story that never seems real. You never attain suspension of disbelief because you’re always aware you are watching actors playing shallow superficial roles in a movie that misses the mark. The action sequences are all way too unrealistic to even approach believability.

Don't fall for any "Great Reviews" of this trainwreck. This is one of those well-hyped films with the same Hollywood "fashion designer dudette" as screenwriter AND director AND producer trying to make a "macho" movie. That is most often a prescription for disaster except in rare exceptions. He had no one to tell him how far off from reality the script and character development was. The script could have been good but the devil was not in the details and it quickly becomes absurd. The premise is flawed at the outset. We are supposed to feel sympathetic for a grandmother who thinks she has a right to go take her grandchild from its mother simply because she doesn't like the behavior of the boys 2nd father or his family. By the second half everything turns into a giant gruesome cluster f#*k, and we are supposed to feel good about the "raw gritty reality of it" I suppose. But instead we just think: This psycho is willing to sacrifice her husband to get her way, and the husband is willing to go along with it! I wanted to ask for my money back and go take a shower at the end. Very weak script that Costner and Lane could not salvage.