Following the struggles of Brian Kessler, a young smart journalist, who writes a book about serial killers, so he goes in a long journey with his girlfriend, a photographer, to document the sites of the murder, the thing that challenges them.
The movie begins extremely well before escalating into the inevitable Straw Dogs confrontation, when the sensitive-intellectual man discovers, just like Dustin Hoffman, that when push comes to shove, we're all brutes and animals.
Far more insightful than the similar but overblown Natural Born Killers.
Moviehole
May 12, 2005
An Absolutely riveting movie...Pitt is outstanding
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
October 03, 2004
A gritty, haunting voyeur's peek into the human condition.
Laramie Movie Scope
August 25, 2002
Truly terrifying journey into madness.
Q Network Film Desk
August 11, 2010
Brad Pitt's performance is crucial, and he rips into the character with a frightening sense of unhinged egomania, violently subverting the Redford-lite pretty-boy image with which so many wanted to associate him
