Eight disaffected young people gather in rural Texas to blow up an oil pipeline. Flashbacks show us backstory for each of them, and the resolution shows us that not everything was as we expected.
This is not a bad film, but it is very earnest, and came across as something a film school student might have presented as his final submission. It is well made, and well acted by a cast of unknowns, one of whom co-wrote, and several of whom co-produced. The placement of flashbacks is well-done, both in terms of rationing out exposition, and pacing suspense.
It tries to offer both sides a fair telling although its sympathies clearly lie with the young eco-terrorists.
As a cross between suspense thriller and eco-propaganda, it is fairly successful. I'm not sure it was my kind of film, though.
This is not a bad film, but it is very earnest, and came across as something a film school student might have presented as his final submission. It is well made, and well acted by a cast of unknowns, one of whom co-wrote, and several of whom co-produced. The placement of flashbacks is well-done, both in terms of rationing out exposition, and pacing suspense.
It tries to offer both sides a fair telling although its sympathies clearly lie with the young eco-terrorists.
As a cross between suspense thriller and eco-propaganda, it is fairly successful. I'm not sure it was my kind of film, though.