Wilford Brimley with a gun

Rating: 7/10 (30 August 2006)

Wilford Brimley seems to be of a dying breed in movies. Gruff old dudes who seem to eat drywall nails for brunch only sleep for half an hour a day cause it cuts in to their drinking time. Lee Marvin may be dead, Clint Eastwood may be playing nice guys with hearts made of pure gold, but there's still this early 80's gem and Wilford Brimley long before he was hawking life insurance off the back of a horse.
The movie serves as an exercise in paranoia and if you can figure out who's who in the movie than you are truly more sober than i. There's a pretty good amount of violence and the special effects are way better and more invented than the cheap and easy CGI that any half-assed movie contains nowadays. It may be nostalgia to say that the movies have loss the quirky inventiveness needed to think up solutions to all sorts of special effects problems, but there it is.
John Carpenter does a good job of pacing the story and action just right and Keith David as always adds a great supporting roll.
give 7 out of 10 raise it to 8 if you've got some alcohol