Robinson (Wes Bentley) and his wife Elizabeth (Emmanuelle Vaugier) are fellow school teachers. Elizabeth is horse riding in the desert and runs across human traffickers. The fans in the truck broke down killing some of the girls. Elizabeth witnesses gangster pimp Jimmy Dolan (Christian Slater) killing the drivers and one girl trying to escape. She rides away but loses her phone. The couple reports it to the police but he is uninterested in the illegals. They go home to find one of the dead girls in their bed and they go to the FBI. She's committed to testifying but is killed in a car bomb. Robinson falls into a deep depression and then aims to take revenge. Meanwhile Dolan is disagreeing on payment with the Snakeheads.Christian Slater is chewing up the screen. He is a good bad guy. Wes Bentley has crazy eyes. He looks like he's permanently tense. It doesn't allow him to change his character's feelings and the character goes through a lot of changes. It's one of the big problems. The other problem is the general lack of production value. I assume it's due to a lower budget and won't fault the movie for it. It has the basis of a good psychological thriller but Wes is not able to deliver it completely.

Stephen King has provided some very good material for a couple of great movies, Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile being two examples. Dolan's Cadillac is not anywhere near that level, although it is watchable. Tom is a teacher in Las Vegas whose wife, Elizabeth, goes horseback riding in the desert and stumbles upon an execution. She is seen by the killer, a gangster named Jimmy Dolan(Christian Slater), and she rides off as Dolan's fellow criminals shoot at her.Tom and Elizabeth go to the law and are placed in the witness protection program. Liz gets bored sitting around, and runs to their car, which explodes when she attempts to start it. Tom is devastated and vows to get Dolan. He gets a gun and follows the killer, and is discovered and beaten up by the gangsters men.Tom gets a job working on the roads doing construction. He works at night digging a big hole as a trap for the Cadillac. What follows is predictable as the Caddy is detoured by Tom towards the pit. The movie has a Twilight Zone feel to it, which is not surprising, since Stephen King has admitted to being a fan of the Rod Serling anthology show, and Slater is good, so it gets a slight thumbs up.

While Emmanuelle Vaugier's doomed teacher Elizabeth asks her class whether it is ever acceptable to break the law, her husband Robinson (Wes Bentley), who is also a teacher, shows his class a gold pocket watch that once belonged to his immigrant father who helped to build America's railways. Thus the themes of this direct-to-video adaptation of a Stephen King short story are perfunctorily established. On the surface, the film appears to confirm that, yes, it is OK to break the law if the crime in question is an act of vengeance towards the exuberantly sleazy mobster (Christian Slater) who has blown up your wife - and, no, it's not acceptable to exploit migrant labour (or bury them in the desert).A different, better, film, might have made more of the fact that, by exacting his revenge the grief-stricken Robinson becomes as much - if not more - of a monster than the mobster Dolan, and you might be forgiven for believing this is what the film attempts to do as it follows in ponderous detail Robinson's act of physical and mental torture. However, given that the sixty minutes that precede this sequence are equally ponderous, you just know that all we're watching is a writer and director attempting to pad out a short story to a feature-length running time. Therefore, we don't share Robinson's near hysterical euphoria at the end of the film, and almost feel sympathy for the entombed gangster as the final paving slab is put in place.The movie's probably worth watching only for Christian Slater's powerhouse performance as Dolan, a violent gangster with a psychotic intelligence that inspires him to wax lyrical over the most unlikely subjects.

I don't get it. Why Hollywood makes so many movies where they make us feel sympathy for the villain? Why so many movies about drug pushers, drug users, the scum of society with no redeeming values in film after film, almost all of them alike scene after scene? If we saw one, we saw them all. The detective (police, whatever) whose wife is killed and he has to avenge her death by himself, etc. How many times have we seen that??? I know while I write this, I must sound like a sort of a preacher, but maybe it's because I don't have the ease of language to express myself in a deeper way about what I feel. I'm not shocked by this sort of films, I'm just BORED. How many improbabilities we see throughout the length of this film? Too many to name them. Just a few: Robinson's girlfriend finished that product she was using so much and leaves the apartment building in a rush at midnight to get more of it, when she knew very well her life was in danger.She would never have done that in real life. Dolan speaks CONSTANTLY on his cell phone, why then, instead of screaming his head off when he's trapped in his Cadillac, he doesn't call members of his gang and ask them to rescue him?How could ONE PERSON (Robinson) excavate such an enormous crater BY HIMSELF!! and then cover it again BY HIMSELF!!! (Superman in disguise?)What about road traffic?Road traffic DISAPPEARED completely from that area during the whole time of this incident!!! Really..., they are asking us to withhold judgment in such large a degree for any thinking viewer...But obviously some people enjoy this type of films very much (otherwise they would never be done). The end is perfectly ridiculous.