Never Totally Convincing

Rating: 7/10 (23 January 2014)

Overrated, this has Big-Name Stars and a Newcomer Director (made a splash with some Indie Film with an Oscar Nomination), and a Great Cinematographer. It is a Longish Crime-Investigation Thriller set in the Rurals of Pennsylvania where Two Children go Missing.
There are more Passed Over Plot Points Dangling than strung up Bucks at a Hunting Cabin on Opening Day. Things come and Things go at Regular Intervals as the Movie Plays Out, and it is all to make it seem like this is an Intelligent, Disturbing, Pedophiliac Picture about an already Borderline Disturbed Dad to Snap and take Revenge.
But a whole lot of it seems Forced and Throws in a Greatly Amount of Backwoods, Small Town, Religious Fervor and Soul Searching, but Never is Totally Convincing on any of it. Our "Hero", the Dad who Snaps is a Survivalist and it may be an Indication that this Contractor has a Few Screws Loose because in His Basement there are Stacks and Stacks of Crisco.
Assuming the Product didn't Underwrite some of the Movie there can be No Other Explanation for this Bizarre Behavior. Water, Batteries, Can Goods, and lots of Crisco. Prayer and a whole lot of Lard will Help one Survive the Apocalypse.
That is the kind of Ill-Fitting Logic that abounds in this Not Awful Movie and if Lengthy Stories that go Everywhere and Nowhere, that Lead to an Ending with more Holes than a Back Road Sign and a Pennsylvania Highway, then Go for it. Just Remember to put on that Orange Vest so You won't be Mistaken for a Movie Goer in Search of Something that makes More Sense.