Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Don't Talk to Strangers has everything in it you wouldn't expect to see. The story is basic enough; a mother divorces her controlling alcoholic husband and meets a new man, but when her son goes missing in a new town, both her new husband and ex-lover get together to hunt down the kidnappers. There's a strangely hilarious "veggieburger" scene. There's a fight where a lawyer named Huddleston gets attacked by the controlling ex-husband (I've never heard the name Huddleston before). There's a mom with some crazy driving skills. And there's a stereotypical fat county sheriff. Holy cow, why aren't movies today like this one? Well, another interesting thing is the appearances of two actors both in popular 1990's television shows: Dave "Squatch" Ward (Ned Bell from Disney's So Weird) plays the minor but distinctive role of a character named Tiny. A younger William B. Davis (the Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files) plays the role of the unfortunate lawyer named Huddleston in the movie's intro scene.There isn't much else to say, although Don't Talk to Strangers seems to stand out from other movies in the same genres (Lifetime-type movies). It had decent soundtrack, good acting (although the blonde child with the bowl-cut, he was awful) and it manages to hold your interest 'till the end, not bad for a movie of its type, although I don't see it winning an award any time soon.

Scenes that cut from dramatic-seeming build-ups to something that may or may not show the conclusion. A speech or two from the strong, nearly independent main, and of course female, character, to one of the weaker, and in general lesser, men. Crying, if however brief, in the shower. This really has all that makes a Lifetime flick, though I don't know if it actually is one. I don't have a problem with women being empowered, or a lot of airtime being dedicated to it, I just think that the films can be less clichéd than I understand they are. With that said, the twists in this are pretty unexpected and interesting, if not necessarily all credible. Also, that's about where the above-average qualities end. The writing sacrifices realism and consistency for victimization and aforementioned surprise occurrences whenever they saw fit to do so. The "action" tends to be so half-heartedly put on the screen that you can't tell what's going on. The cinematography ranges between passable and just plain uninspired. The acting varies, O'Quinn outshines the rest, and not all of his fellow performers are awful. The kid actively appeared daft, both real life and his character. The language is fairly limited, a couple of moderate strength words here and there, and nothing else particularly objectionable, apart from perhaps the thematic material and a little violence. The entire thing is "fine". Could do worse, won't be difficult to do better. I recommend it to big fans of those involved, and those absolutely famished for a crime-thriller they haven't yet watched. 6/10

It's interesting to see what shape Pierce Brosnan's career was in before Bond arrived on the scene. In this "tense" thriller, Pierce Brosnan plays the gentle Patrick, who works leading ghetto kids on "confidence courses". He romances a woman, who has a bog-standard mop-top mid-90s kid called Eric. The woman's drunken ex-husband soon arrives on the scene and begins to mess with Pierce.At one stage Pierce is innocently making "vegeburgers". The husband enters. Pierce resumes making vegeburgers. The husband then assaults Pierce. Little chunks of half-eaten vegeburger call fall from Pierce's mouth. The fight abruptly ends without showing the outcome. This is as good as the film gets.

I enjoyed watching this film because it had a good twist to it, just when you tought you had every thing worked out something new came along.I like Keegan Mactinosh, as I have seen quite a few films and shows with him in.Most of the other actors are well known and provide good roles in the film too.