I want my 80 minutes back!!!!!!!, 25 March 2003
Author: sherrie shaw from Texas
This is going in my top 5 worst movies of ALL time. The acting was horrible!!!!!!!!! What could have been played out as a naughty story line with good results, just wasn't!!!!! Nick Stahl needs to read through his scripts before he accepts the parts. He's such a gifted actor, so what happened to him in this movie, I have no clue. Everyone was acting like they were shot up with novocaine. The plot was so obvious from the get go that I can't believe I wasted 80 minutes to see what I already knew was going to happen (I must be into pain and suffering). Bottom line: I concur with the others, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.
Here's a review from some fellow (lady?) from West Virginia:
I can't believe I watched this movie., 5 December 2003
Author: tpendleton from Charleston, WV
I'm embarrassed to be writing this review. I say that because those of you reading it will know that I sat through the whole thing and that is embarrassing to admit even to strangers. But I just had to warn those who read the viewer comments on IMDb before they watch a film not to watch this one. It's the least I can do. This is a bad movie! Trust me. The plot is goofy. The acting is amateurish. And the directing, camera work, sets, costumes, etc. are all second rate. Let it go.
Here's a review from somebody who couldn't even sit through it sober:
one word 'meh', 17 August 2003
Author: chakaflange from uk
I watched this film despite reading that it was appaulling [sic] for one reason. Mr Stahl. I ended up rather enjoying it despite some of the worst acting I've seen in a long time thanks to January Jones(I've seen bricks that can act better than she can). The ending was a big surprise but then I was pretty drunk at the time I was watching it.... Only really worth watching if you're into one of the actors and you like this kind of film.
I think this review is my favorite:
Poorly executed thriller with an amazingly unconvincing cast of rather homely young actors., 4 August 2003
Author: TheVid from Colorado Springs
Some bad kids (in more ways than one!) settle their behavioral problems in a creepy old house on a stormy night. Trite. Goofy and uneven, to say the least, but there's no excuse for the omission of gratuitous sex and violence in a trash flick like this, which is supposedly aimed at the youth market. Unattractive.
Tears. TEARS streaming from my eyes. I expect a full refund on this piece of crap movie. Oh, and I'm going back. Tomorrow. You bet your ass I'm going back.
I'll be in the area anyway since I lost my Buy Back slip. Well, EXCUSE ME. I was distracted by the beating my credit card took as I paid FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for my goddamn text books. Shit, are the text books diamond encrusted? Are they gilding every goddamn page? Did the Pope piss on it? I don't know why! I'm not even taking the maximum hours a student can take! I'm taking five courses. FIVE. Yeah, so I left my buy back slip. Because, seriously, the $28 I get for the $100 anatomy text book is really going to cushion the hurt from the $497.02 I spent on text books. THANKS. Yes, it was really $497.02. TWO CENTS. Those pennies are mocking me.
Damn it, I really wanted to watch hot Japanese boys make out. Well, I guess I'll just watch Battle Royale. Takeshi Kitano is in that one, too. Also, Masanobu Ando is dreamy. Does he make out with any boys before he kills them? No? Crap.
At least I can look forward to the Beautiful Boxer screening. CRAP.
I WANT SAMURAI-ON-SAMURAI ACTION.
Postscript: Battle Royale is pretty awesome. Masanobu Ando has a machine gun. He uses it. It's hot. Is that wrong? No. No, it is not. Also, Takeshi Kitano is delightful. I love, love, love him. He's always a joy to watch. Remember when the Miami Film Festival didn't suck? When Nat Chediak directed it and brought all of those excellent films to this horrible place and invited directors and actors for chats? YES. I DO. Because I remember the Kikujiro screening, and I remember Takeshi Kitano coming out onstage and being interviewed before the movie and taking questions after the movie, and IT WAS AWESOME. And the previous year, they showed Fireworks. Oh, I miss it. I miss it so much. 
Also, I'm not going back to Lion Video yet. I'll return it once I've finished watching Dark Water and Death in Venice. I'm curious about Dark Water. They've Americanized it with Jennifer Connelly and some annoying child actor. American child actors are almost always horrible. Case in point: Dakota Fanning. I seriously can't wait 'til puberty hits her and she stops making movies. And then there's that trailer for that bad, bad Winn Dixie movie I suffered through (I saw The Life Aquatic, which was not horrible -- it could've used some Stephen Lea Sheppard, let me tell you that much). Oh, jesus. Help me. If W.C. Fields were alive today, he'd caution you against making movies with animals, children, AND Dave Matthews. This movie has all three. And a child actress that's even WORSE than Dakota Fanning. Yeah, you heard me. I didn't think it would be, but it's apparently possible!
Japan has some awesome child actors. Go rent Kikujiro. The little boy will break your heart into a million pieces.
Post-postscript: Oh, for fuck's sake. I rented a dubbed version of Morete a Venezia. Do you have any idea how unsettling it is to hear British voices come out of Italian actors? The words don't match their lips! It's unsettling. I can't believe they actually dubbed over Dirk Bogarde. He's a brilliant actor! I don't need some English ham fucking up his line readings, thanks!
thanks!
but its not cat poo! its 6 feet above the floor, it cant be cat poo.. really, i have no idea.