An average movie

When the news came out that they were remaking this classic, as usual, it gathered some buzz but pretty much like all those remakes (the most recent one being the ‘Oldboy’ remake directed by Spike Lee), it came and went pretty quickly at the box-office. Personally, I really liked a lot the original version directed by Sam Peckinpah but it has been more than a decade since I saw it so I thought I could check this new version. While watching this flick, I was wondering ‘why do they remake these movies instead of re-releasing the good old classics?’. I mean, it would be cheaper and the younger audience would get to watch some really good flicks instead of those half-baked new version. Anyway, this remake was not that bad, Rod Lurie is a decent director (even though it is easily his weakest movie I have seen so far) but the mood never reached the intensity of the original version. Basically, from an intense and nerve-wrecking psychological thriller, they made a watchable but really forgettable horror flick. I’m not sure if it actually qualifies as an horror flick but the characters were rather poorly sketched and I didn’t care much for the whole thing. To conclude, even though I think my rating might be a little bit generous, it is actually not a bad remake and I guess it is worth a look, but you should definitely watch the original classic instead.

6/10