Let's be realistic.

Lack of good storyline.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The cable channel Home Box Office has made a name for itself by making a number of high quality movies. "Blind Side", however, is one of HBO's rare misses. You can tell that HBO doesn't seem to think it's as worthy as its other movies, because the DVD for the movie (made by them) has one of the worst looking transfers I've seen in a long time. Where did this go wrong? The actors are not at fault - they are clearly trying. It's the script that's at fault. It's not that I object to the central story being very familiar, but how it plays out. The movie moves very slowly, when there should have been snappier and the situation more tense for the protagonists much earlier in the game. And the climax involves (sigh) a punch-up instead of something more clever. However, if you want to see the ridiculous sight of Ron Silver in a sex scene, or the equally silly sight of managing to hold his own in a fist fight, this movie will do nicely.

When i first saw the summary of this movie i was expecting a lot.Good HBO production.Great actors:Rutger Hauer,Rebecca De Mornay and Ron Silver.But i was wrong.This was a really painful experience.Boring,predicitable and irritating TV thriller without tension.Very poorly directed,very bad acted.I think that this is the worst movie ever made,and I am a thriller fan,but this is not a thriller,this is just a poor excuse to spend some money on making films.I can't believe that i was excited about seeing this movie.I really love Rutger Hauer,he is a great and good actor,but this movie is really a disaster.

This is a "sleeper," an intense and involving thriller that grabs you from the start....but a film not people know about. Hey, only 10 people have even reviewed it here and the film is 13 years old. To be fair, I did think the finish was unrealistic which the typical killer-talks- instead-of shoots mentality, a familiar flaw in flimmaking. Too bad, because the rest of the movie is very good with Rutger Hauer a convincing evil blackmailer. Few actors play a psycho better than Hauer (see "The Hitcher" and "Nighthawks"). Rebecca DeMornay is a sexy woman in this film while her husband is the sleazy Ron Silver, but the latter's character is better than most the villains he usually portrays. This movie also has the unusual distinction of being a modern-day crime film with very little profanity.

Another movie I watched in my Mariska Hargitay run. I highly regretted watching this. It was a waste of the $2.13 it cost to rent it. Direction was terrible. The camera angles tried to be dramatic and add to the tension, but it failed miserably and came across as the work of a child. One scene is as badly shot as the worst amatuer porn flick. Acting is acceptable, but can't overcome the hideous directing, writing, and fashion. The ending scene is laughable and cliche. After the first half hour I ended up fast forwarding through a good portion of the movie, only watching the scenes that helped to move the(pathetic) plot forward or that featured something eye-catching. Let's not even get into the plot holes and hanging threads.Stay away from this. Zombie flicks are more enjoyable.