Good concept, poorly executed.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The first must-see film of the year.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Tolerable Tale of an Abused Upper-Middle-Class Housewife that is forced to take a Stand against a Politically Correct Gang (not available in real life) and She has got the Right Stuff. The Catharsis of this Movie is Right-On if the Thing does have many Missteps and Wasted Opportunities.Carrying that Damn Toolbox around is a non-intelligent Laugh Getter and is the most Glaring of the Flaws. Although it is an Audience Identification Thriller that Delivers Enough of the Goods to be Satisfying, there are some Amateurish Highlights that Distract and Drag this Down to just Above Average for this type of Thing.Given the Contrivances and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief there are some things that cannot go Unchallenged. Let's have another Urinating Scene. For what? Does what? Shame on yet another "realism" Pretension that is just Annoying and a Modern Mainstay of Unnecessary Uncomfortableness. A Missed Opportunity for a Certified Cheer from the Audience...during the Sex Scene...unbuckle His belt slowly, loosen His pants, and insert Flare...that would have been Hot. The Final Line is a Cheat and a Big Disappointment.

Well I just finished watching the above film and was prompted to review it after so many negative reviews. I found it an interesting film and idea. The genre is a revenge kind of thing i suppose not unlike dirty weekend. The end is very similar to parts in this film and there is a lot of bad language and references to sex etc. However i didn't find it used violence gratuitously due to its genre. Kim Basinger looks really good in the film and considering she is 56? now I was surprised how fit she looked, better than her younger days if you ask me, and this is from a hetro female who grew up with her films in the 80's.. The film itself as i said is a revenge type film, it starts off with Christmas at Della's family home. She has a twin boy and girl and a bully husband who complains she doesn't clean up enough ( clearly doesn't realise marriage is supposed to be a partnership and it's no longer the 19th century!!) and said she has let her self go to pot physically!( has he SEEN what most housewives look like? he has been watching too much American Pie and Stiffler's mum, i think!) Anyway as the film goes on basically she goes to the mall to get last minute Xmas stuff and manages to antagonise a group of hooligans. It centres around that and although it's hard to believe it goes from then on and it gets quite tense til the end as you're worried about whether she will get home and the kids being at home and so on... wont totally give the game away but LOVED the ending retribution served. Just easy going revenge film id say. Nothing pretentious. quite tense and lots of fun...

I recently came across one of Lukas Haas movies and liked it very much. So I decided to look up what else he did. Let me tell you something- he either makes a very good movie, or a very bad one. This one is bad. Like, beyond bad. It is not scary, it is so unbelievable it hurts, the "action" is beyond pathetic. The so called love scene is embarrassing (embarassing because you must watch two very good actors do very stupid dialog, not to mention there is none, like 0 attraction between them.)Not that its the actors fault in any way. They did their best with what they've got - nothing unfortunately. The director should have thought it over -its really really THAT bad. Please, don't waste your time. This said, Kim Basenger is still a unique actress to me and I would watch her next movie.

This movie is good for watching while folding the laundry or doing some other mind-numbing monotonous task.Other reviewers have pointed out lapses in logic which I won't repeat here ... except the part that really gets me is ... why does the barista/cashier write "Dela"'s name on the cup if she hands it right to her? Things like this drive me crazy. Though obviously this detail was pivotal to the plot line of DelLa becoming increasingly irritated to the point at which she becomes a raving homicidal maniac.I did enjoy the various dispatchings of the ethnically diverse gang members via the Magic Red Toolbox. Would've been better if they were even bloodier! And I kind of feel disgusted at myself for thinking that the quasi-sex scene at the end was HOTTTTTTTTT. Poor Chuckie! Ending scene was pretty rad though predictable. This movie probably should have stayed as a story, short and sweetly bloody.Among "bad" horror movies (which deserve their own rating system), I'd rate this a 4/10. Among all films ever made, bad-mediocre-good, I'd rate this a 2/10.