Review of Straw Dogs (1971) by Light — 18 Sep 2011
I liked this film a lot more than the critics did. Not nearly in the class of the original with Dustin Hoffman, which is a classic, but still fairly entertaining. I thought the male lead was miscast, and lacked the goofy everyman quality of Hoffman, who played an average guy who has to show a real character arc.
This chiseled actor could have played the hero or one of the bad guys, so the director/producers/execs (who knows who to blame nowadays?) seriously misunderstood the material. Still, a good 'B' movie.
A good bad movie, as I like to say.
This review of Straw Dogs (1971) was written by Light on 18 Sep 2011.
Straw Dogs has generally received positive reviews.
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