Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

lavatch If the characters of "Hollow in the Land" had been slightly more bizarre and if the film had been graced with an eerie soundtrack, this might have been an episode of "Twin Peaks."The action takes place in a small, picturesque town in Western Canada. But the residents of Castlegar are too busy with custody battles, crime, drugs, and covering up their dirty laundry to take note of the beautiful landscape.The narrative focuses on the character of Ally Miller, who is La Femme Nikita transplanted to the Pacific Northwest. Ally turns into a kinetic private eye as she attempts to clear the name of her young brother, who has been placed in her custody after the incarceration of their father, Keith Miller, who was convicted of vehicular manslaughter.The young lad that was killed by the drunken Mr. Miller was Eli Balkoff, the son of the two town local scions, Helen and Jim Balkoff, who run the Balkoff paper mill where Ally works. Mr. and Mrs. Balkoff have recently dedicated their efforts to building a Center for Misguided Youth in their community, of which there are plenty of examples of juvenile delinquency.Amid the degeneracy of Castlegar, Ally Miller steps up to the plate to track down the culprits who have framed her little bro, Brandon Miller. Along the way, Ally learns that nearly all of the residents are guarding personal secrets. Two of the most intriguing characters are a pair of elderly women who have for years been growing pot, unbeknownst to the member of the community. Those women may hold the key to collective past of the town that will unlock the secrets to the great antipathy felt towards the Miller family.The irony of the townspeople is that everyone seems to know everyone else and makes it their personal business to be nosy. And yet, in the end, they really do not know each other's deepest secrets. One of the colorful placenames is that of Snob Hill, where Ally is led to another one of her clues. In this sleepy little trailer park community of Castlegar, it turns out that there really are some social snobs, who may help Ally to undercover the tragic underbelly of her dysfunctional world.

Siebert_Tenseven Anyone who can sit though this endless saga of perpetual wild-eyed suspense has got to have about as much nothing upstairs as the creators of this worthless butt stain of an awful movie. The viewer is forced through one and a half hours of a dimensionless young woman trying to find her equally dimensionless brother in a depressing landscape of bad haircuts and shotguns.It would be OK if there were a few suspenseful moments leading up to a meaningful conclusion, but since the character development in this movie is about as neglected as a sweaty gym sock on the seat of a downtown express bus, by the time the determined yet sexy heroine catches up with her worthless idiot of a brother, nobody could care one doo-doo about anything but this movie ending as quickly as possible.

screechy_jim I didn't like this film. The opening scene was interesting but What follows is and endless series of elongated scenes that move the story along very slowly and very uneventfully. I was solidly bored 30 minutes in and lost anything but very superficial interest in most of what was happening for another half hour which is when the pace crept up slightly.The synopsis is fairly accurate, and nothing executed in the screenplay makes it any more interesting than detailed in this two sentence outline. It's quite a dark and creepy affair, often with low lit scenery and an Erie soundtrack which the film relies on heavily to establish mood and convey tension. It's fairly bland, and even with twists in the plot around 'who did what and why', there are few undulations. Suspense is limited as is the build up of intrigue as the plot unfolds. Even though I didn't like it, I don't necessarily think it's a bad film, more that it lacks some crucial elements to make it interesting. As it is it's inadequate, but it does have some promise, or at least, it does show signs that whoever made it has. I don't like to be unfairly unkind when writing these reviews because I'm only too aware that no one deliberately makes a bad film or one with pitfalls. Often they are due to factors I couldn't possibly fathom, but here possibly a little inexperience could be the culprit, but that's just a guess. Some aspects of this film are very good but the pacing is too slow, particularly in the fist half where scenes are also lacking in interesting content. Still some credit is due as its not a half bad job.I don't recommend it because I don't think it has enough to offer as a suspense thriller, but you could still do worse than watch it in idle time.

kashidomar Basically this movie is a pure family drama involving the guilty father with his two siblings whose fate should be rewritten and rebuild after their misfortune. But when the movie slowly takes it's full course it seems to be a movie out of the regular dramatic boundaries. It has the mysterious search of a sister for her brother...has the story of battle between the society and two lone warrior ....has the actions of twentyfirst century...has the strong finish of total background.Recommended to thriller lovers who love to see drama type thriller.