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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I've saw this movie once and now Im trying to get it to have a copy of it. I found this movie very slow but at times good. Im from the town where this movies was shot but missed watching the shooting of it by a few months.Its based in the fictional town of Revelstoke Alaska but in fact Revelstoke is in Eastern British Columbia Canada.Almost in between Vancouver BC and Calgary Alberta. Every place where the scenes were filmed I knew exactly where it was. Also a lot of the extras that shown I knew them. After watching the movie I was talking to the "locals" who were in the movie only to realize their scenes were edited out. More info on the town and the movie like probably guess most of the scenes were filmed at night. Yes it does snow a lot in fact this past winter we received over 14 feet of snow for the whole winter. Where "the barber" had his shop is located in an antique store that is on Mckenzie Ave. As Revelstoke is what is called a old railway town so we tend old buildings. Never less I want to movie more for where its filmed than for the actual storyline like i had said before the storyline is slow.

I bought this DVD cos it starred Malcolm McDowell, a well respected actor - I watched the DVD trailer to fill me in on the plot - I needn't have bothered - there wasn't one!Malcolm must have fallen on hard times to even associate his name with this movie - it appears to have won some awards, however they were Canadian and not exactly Oscars The plot was actually pretty transparent and you could almost see the next alleged "twist" waiting in the wings to enter Stage Left The whole thing was very disappointing and there were a few comedy stereotypes to amuse you - I don't think they were intended to be amusing but the performances were more contrived and wooden than Pinnochio This struck me as a very very poor version of the Hannibal Lecter series but was spoilt even more by poor old Malcolm having to read out his thoughts to set scenes etc - this is a cop-out for poor low-budget filmmakers I suppose I should have realised this was an awful film as it was in the sale bin at my superstore for the huge price of 99p !!

Everyone looks for the perfect film and thinks if they do not find it there is nothing worth while. That is why I really enjoy...if not love this film! I need not say anything about Malcolm since his acting and career speaks for itself, but also consider that the films he chooses are not necessarily main stream, but possess some merit(considering his 147 IMDb acting entries).This film made me think of an Insomnia (foreign or domestic) meets David Lynch (Twin Peaks of course), or the other way around depending on which influenced you first. I can't but wonder if all those things criticized about this film were intentional. The quirky nature of each character, for example, due to effects of S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder - http://www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/27.cfm), provide the canvas for the film to unfold onto.This is the one of few reviews I have written, even though I personally own over 1500 films (not that it really means anything or that I have seen them all)! I just felt that someone needed to speak up for the misunderstood. If you spent the time to actually read my comments I thank you for your time, whether you enjoy this film or not. If you have not seen the film, I would like to say it would be worth your while, but this is the kind of film you have to experience for yourself and see how it suits you.

(SOME SPOILERS) Serial killer on the loose in the north country using the six month winter darkness as a cover for his unspeakable crimes. With two drunken hunters Levi & Buffalo, Philip Granger & Ernst Harth, stumbling on the frozen body of Lucy Waters,Jennifer Martinez, it becomes evident later at the towns coroners office that she's been murdered. The chief of police of the little northern Alaskan town of Revelstoke Vance Corgan, Jeremy Ratchford, is then put on the case.We almost seem to know who the killer is by seeing the towns barber Dexter Miles, Malcolm McDowell, talking to his customer about killing someone that you love and how difficult it is to do it face to face, like Lucy was murdered by strangulation, then with a gun at a safe distance away. Our suspicions about Miles being the killer is later confirmed when he spends the next evening at the home of the waitress Sally, Brenda James, of Revelstoke's rowdy Liquor Pig bar, Sally's later found murdered the exact same way that Lucy was. Miles begins to become suspicious to the police finding him out when FBI Agent Crawley, Sarwin Sanford, and later his fellow agent Sedwick, Vince Murdocco, comes on the scene knowing that they, the FBI, are tracking Miles' previous murders on the Pacific West Coast, that number about 50. These murderers are very similar to the killings Miles is involved with up here in Alaska.With the prime suspect in Lucy's murder, Hawkins, found murdered himself in a hotel room in North Pole Alaska almost every male in Revelstoke, including Chief Corgan, is a potential suspect in her murder. Lucy had sexual relations with almost every man in town and they all had reasons to kill her to keep her from outing them .At the same time the FBI seemed to have overlooked the fact that Lucy was found to have been raped but the rapist, according to the postmortem report, was sterile which eliminated almost everyone of Lucy's lovers but Dexter Miles!The film "The Barber" has Miles one step ahead of the police during the entire movie using the cover of night to get away with his crimes. Miles seems so sure of himself that he makes no effort to distance himself from the killings like admitting that he was in the small town of North Pole the day that Hawkins was last seen alive there. Miles also doesn't seem to care that he was seen with the victims at Revelstoke just hours before they were found murdered. Setting up Chief Corgan, by somehow planting DNA evidence, to implicate him in the deaths of Lucy Sally and later his secretary at the police station Jewels, Erin Wright, Miles has it all wrapped for the FBI to arrest the towns police chief who the FBI agent had thrown off the case because, of what they considered, his incompetence. Miles makes one major mistake he leaves a fingerprint on a beer mug that he gave Corgan as a Christmas present that matches one of his at the Jewels murder scene. Too gimmickry for my taste with Miles always a step ahead, or having fate or luck on his side, of the police and FBI to the point that the film comes across as if it wan't him to get away with murder. The movie tries to show it's audience how a psychopath, like Miles, has superhuman intelligence and unbelievable luck to prove it's point. Yes psycho killers are smart cunning and devious besides being extremely dangerous. A psycho killer can be someone that his friends and acquaintances my know very well, like a Dexter Miles, but will never suspect him in a million years but in reality most Psycho killers, unlike Dexter Miles, end up getting caught.