Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

bkoganbing For a gentile like myself, Brigham City is both a good murder mystery about a serial killer and a nice insight into a community where the Mormon culture predominates. The film is the creation of Richard Dutcher who wrote, directed, and starred in it.Dutcher wears two hats in this film and something you're not likely to see in a gentile setting. He's both the bishop and spiritual leader of the town and the sheriff. Being that must be a unique experience, in most small town the function of the local cops is mainly breaking up bar fights and writing speeding tickets. As one of the tenets of the LDS church is non-imbibing of liquor that is something he might not have to deal with. Still Dutcher and his deputy Matthew Brown do have an influx of other kinds of people in the town engaged in the construction trade. The place is booming.And so when a serial killer strikes the folks in Brigham City find it inconceivable that the perpetrator could be one of them. Eventually they have to explore the possibility.When a young girl goes missing, Dutcher deputizes a bunch of people and they do a house to house search which in another setting somebody might complain about a little thing like the Constitution. He does uncover a wrongdoer, but not in the same vein of what he was looking for.I did like the scenes very much of the everyday life in a Mormon community it gives some great insights. For instance Brown talks about saving money for various things including the mission trip his infant son will eventually make. Not something you would hear in another film.Dutcher is an imaginative film maker and he's turned out a good one here that can be appreciated outside the state of Utah.

hokeybutt You know, when most people hear about this movie and they find out that writer/producer/director/star Richard Dutcher is a Mormon... and that the movie has a definite Mormon agenda... they are going to be rolling their eyes and thinking, "That can't be any GOOD!" (Heck, that was my own reaction initially.) This movie is about a small Mormon town who's quiet tranquility is rocked with the seeming arrival of a serial killer in their midst. I don't even want to say anything more about the plot lest I give something away. Suffice to say that the movie is one of the best-written AND directed AND acted (with the exception of co-star Wilford Brimley, I don't think anyone is a "professional" actor) police thrillers I have seen in recent years! And no, I'm not a Mormon! Richard Dutcher has really done something unexpected here... by infusing a traditional thriller with an examination of faith... and emotion... and humanity... the movie works on all levels... topped off by a searing ending. I was really blown away by this movie (though I still have no intentions of joining the Mormon Church.)

Adrian Smith (trouserpress) I finally saw this film last night after a friend from Arizona sent it to us, and I have to say I was quite shocked. It was a lot more downbeat than I was expecting. The tension was almost relentless, and we enjoyed constantly changing our minds as to the killer's identity. All in all it was quite intense and slightly uncomfortable. It attempted, fairly successfully, to question how faith can exist in times of horror and crisis, but it was still an unusual juxtaposition of the two. My wife commented that she didn't think there should have been so much emphasis on religion in a film like this. I was surprised that you're left feeling sad at the end of the film rather than uplifted, which is what you would expect from the director of God's Army. I'm glad though that he tried to do something different as it would have been very easy for him to just repeat the successful formula he had used in his first film, and I'm still looking forward to his next effort, Joseph the Prophet.

Sean Wilhelm If you are tired of the "Hollywood Blockbuster" with nothing but special effects, rent this movie. It is a suspense filled movie that you cannot figure out until the very end. Find this movie, rent it and watch it.