Review of Straw Dogs (2011) by Filmanwalt — 17 Jan 2021

Girlfriend fell asleep and I was still in the mood for a movie, zapped a little on Sky and ran Straw Dogs. For me again one of those films that want to be more than they could ever be. It's a cheap track number, but it doesn't exude the charm that such films can exude. The film wants to be an intelligent thriller, but has far too little tension build-up, basically you know what is going on from the start and you hope that at least the expected action is okay.

So the film constructs everything right, puts everything into position in a boring form and then at least manages to stage the mentioned action in an acceptable manner, which still doesn't pull the cart out of the mud. Actually it's okay with Jim Marsden, Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard, but not anymore, not even with the rest (the dialogues etc. just don't look much).

All in all trash without esprit. 3/10 "hillbillies".