This had a nostalgic vibe in terms of sexy female leading on an innocent man with good intentions and manipulating his mind, making him go crazy and behave totally unhinged and out of character...but you wanted to see her get punished in some way and it turns out she was powerfuly enough to continue wrecking lives and reaking havok for years to come...tragic.

I went into this film knowing little about it and left having to have inner discussions with my moral compass.I don't to give much away but the ending is quite intense and while at times during the film there is clues as to its direction they are not entirely obvious.Josie is a young girl new to a small town who befriends her neighbour. He is older and in his 40s while she is still.at high school.Their relationship also involves Josies new boy friend from high school in a kind of love triangle.The film is quite slow so don't expect any action or fast paced dialogue. Everything plods along with hreat cinamotography and a drawling country and western soundtrack.The performances are very good from the 3 main characters and veey good from the supporting cast.Im not sure why this scores so low though.Only thing I can think of is that its a bit slow and the ending is a bit harsh. Having said that its a good film to reflect on an action and reaction situation. Following orders is never an excuse for wrongdoing, we learnt that with Hitler and the Nazis. We have been punishing people for years for committing war crimes during wars and their excuse was just following orders.Unfortunately thats just not good enough.

Judging from the people involved, I expected this to be at least a good movie. Instead it turned out to be a preachy anti-death penalty movie that glorified murder, just not when the people getting murdered have been convicted of anything. To be clear, the movie goes out of its way several times to denigrate specifically the State of Texas and its use of the death penalty, while it justifies the main character committing murder against people who have not been convicted of any crime whatsoever and who didn't have any primary role in state executions.Further, as a lifelong Texan, I found it silly that the very distinct Louisiana accent used by the main male character/former Huntsville death row guard was actually claimed to be a "Texas drawl". They should get their money back from the speech coach who lied to them.The supposedly clarifying scene of an execution attended by a little 4 year old girl whose father was being executed is completely ridiculous on so many levels. They wouldn't allow any child to witness an execution. Period. Much less the child of the person being executed. The people who strap the inmate down probably don't hang around while the actual execution takes place, and they don't actually kill anyone, so why they would be hunted down and killed in revenge for the execution is a mystery. Maybe if the writer had considered the District Attorney, arresting officers, witnesses who helped get the person convicted, even the person who actually pushes the button that kills the convicted inmate would be better targets than the guy who straps the inmates left wrist. That's just dumb.But really, the movie deserves a low rating because it promotes the favored Hollywood stereotype that Texans sound dumb, look dumb and are dumb. I don't recall Hollywood being around on any jump I ever made. I have never seen Hollywood in any firefight. I have only ever seen Hollywood pretend to be things it is not and then give itself an award for how good it pretends to be things it is not. I am referring to Hollywood in the singular although it is made up of a lot of pretentious and self absorbed persons who do things like preach about the death penalty and make fun of Texans.Audie Murphy was from Texas. In World War Two he received every combat medal for valor available from the U.S. Army, along with French and Belgian medals. He also received the Congressional Medal of Honor. I never seen Hollywood get any of those. He didn't look dumb, sound dumb and was not actually dumb. He was also not pretentious and self absorbed.If Hollywood wants to pretend to be someone that looks dumb, sounds dumb and is dumb they should just be themselves.

Yes, the performances are decent (Sophie Turner acts better than she even did in Game Of Thrones and Dylan Mcdermott shows, once again, that he's a hugely under-rated actor) but it's rather slow and uninvolving and the 'big twist' is so blindingly obvious...