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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Tonight on broadcast TV were two films from 2009. This was one, Black Dynamite was the other. Mike Starr was a character in both. Black Dynamite had a 3-million budget and made $300k. Yup, it could barley make 1/10 of its budget. That tells you all you need to know, despite the people raving about what a great spoof it is. I guess no one remembers I'm Gonna Get You Sucka. The shame is that the actors are great in Black Dynamite. The bigger-name actors in this film are even a little better. Its instructive to see how much better Mike Starr is used in this film compared to Black Dynamite.The primary difference is the script and the courage of the director. Franck Khalfoun, the director, had the guts to play it straight and he pulled it off. Wrong Turn had a 6-million dollar budget and went straight to DVD for reasons I cannot fathom. It relied on gore a little too much, and the younger directors all make moves that are a live-action variant of a first-person shooter video game. So be it, this was still pretty good, with some great moments. Not sure why Khalfoun is not doing more-- he sure did a great job with this.The quality of the acting was so good, I am amazed they could get this cast for such a low budget. The music was good, and there were times that the cinematography was stunning. Not always, but a few shots were Deakins-like, where if you freeze the frame it looks like a painting. And I was watching in 480SD with sidebars. Seeing this in HD would be great.I really don't know why critics panned this-- maybe it was the straight-to-DVD aspect and they never watched it, they just assumed it would be bad. I think this holds up with Transporter and the Bourne flicks, and best of all, no nauseating shaky-cam like Bourne. Its a nice little Walking Tall meets Scarface flick and I recommend it. I give 7 stars. Its not The Departed, but its way better than Black Dynamite.The biggest mystery to me is why screenwriter Eddie Nickerson only did this one flick, and why people are not beating down his door for more of the same. Six million, and the whole crew gets a lot of bang for those bucks.

WRONG TURN AT TAHOE is a straightforward low budget crime thriller boasting a decent cast, lots of action and incident, and a familiar but well-worked storyline. It's about a small time crook who accidentally bumps off the wrong person and subsequently finds himself the subject of a vendetta by a big shot crime boss.Such story lines are ten a penny, but WRONG TURN AT TAHOE does well with the material by focusing on the nuts and bolts action of the piece. There's a whole host of well-shot violence here, and a short running time that means the film never outstays its welcome. Plus, the casting of the underrated Miguel Ferrer (ROBOCOP) in a lead role is an inspired one, as this actor gets far too little screen time given his undeniable talent. Okay, Cuba Gooding Jr. is acceptable at best, but Harvey Keitel has fun with a small but grandstanding role.

I watched plenty of movies this week and out of them, I think this is the best of the bunch.The setup was good and it followed through rather nicely.The story flowed well and there was not an over use of hard language or violence where there didn't need to be.Of all the gangster movies I watched, this is one of the better ones.What I really liked was that the film didn't take place in New York, Chicago, L.A. or Miami.It also takes place in winter and not everybody lives in the largest of homes or has the latest fashions or has poor vocabulary skills.The entire structure is nicely constructed and is a worthwhile viewing.The Scorpion and the Frog story made total sense and brought back some memories of someone who used to tell me that same story - and in this movie, it made total sense.Nice job to all.

Call me a product of the ADD age, but it's not very often these days that I'll actually sit through an entire movie without at least fast forwarding through some parts (you know, like the de rigeur musical montage in romantic comedies). And when I saw Cuba Gooding's name in the opening credits, I seriously considered putting an end to the movie and to my misery right there and then (I still have nightmares about his and Christian Slater's disastrous last effort at movie-making). And yet, as the movie developed, I found myself drawn into the plot and the characters. Mind you, this film is not a treatise on either. The plot and characters are rather simple, and we only get brief glimpses into the origins of the relationship between Cuba's character and that of his boss, but it's all we need. The rest is like a good old fashioned shootout at the OK corral. All in all, I'd say this movie was every bit as good as The Departed, minus the star cast and director.