While a somewhat interesting drama at times it is often ruined by the preachy tone it takes with guns. In this film the root of all evil is the second amendment. All the other ones are good but the founding fathers blew it on the second one. It is Hollywoods attempt to help spur gun control. The problem with the film is that it mentions nothing about personal responsibility and this was done on purpose. If the matter of personal responsibility were brought up then Hollywood would be one of the biggest offenders. With the high body count films....including this one Hoolywood is selling violence, gun violence for profit. If personal responsibility were brought up Hollywood would have to asks to many questions of itself. So it was dropped from the film entirely. So we have an ex-CIA sniper blaming everyone for his daughters death..despite the killer, never-mind the he was the killer of many, many people...it was his job.We also get the blurring and distorting of the second amendment, which means that because our government has guns we should as well, lest we become under the thumb of another tyrant. Much like King George was to the colonists. It does not mean only a militia should have guns, which is what some would have you believe. When constitution was written nearly all citizens had guns...they had to, they need to put food on the table by hunting for it. Gun violence is by and large committed by those who do not follow the law or have personal responsibility. That said I am all for gun locks. If you have kids in the home and your kid dies because you did not use one you should be punished.I think if this film would have added personal responsibility into the mix it would have been a much more interesting film. Instead Hollywood will not have anything to do with personal responsibility, it is bad for the bottom line and looking in the mirror they my find that they are the biggest offenders when it comes to gun violence. Funny how when Oliver Stone was called on this very fact he brought up personal responsibility. Tickets please!

I saw Liberty Stands Still knowing what it was about and wanted to give it a chance. Thank God it was on cable and I did not rent it. Such a waste of talent. If you want to see a film that deals with gun violence, see the last film James Coburn ever made (American Gun, 2002). That film had class,appeal, and NO SENSELESS VIOLENCE gun play like Skoagland's mistake. What's sad is that people are so close-minded anymore that they believe blatant diatribe posing as art can be taken seriously. My guess is that most posters who liked this film are young,idealistic wet-behind-the-ears types. And NO, I did not want an "action film" for all of you apologists for Liberty Stands Still. The movie S-U-C-K-E-D.

God, I wish, I could get back those two hours I've spent watching this ridiculous piece of...cinematography. Almost every aspect of this movie is remarkably bad. First of all, it's the plot. I mean, c'mon, watching this movie is like watching 2 hours long politically correct (which in fact allows discrimination of white gun-owners) anti-gun commercial. So, let's see, what do we have here. Oh, it's the black guy, whose daughter was shot in school by some fun freak (bet he was from Alabama, right?). So the only way a father can retaliate is by kidnapping a businesswoman, who's in gun business (guess he didn't have the stomach to deal with a man) and playing some sick twisted psychological games with her. Anyway, afterwards he shoots a major gun manufactures and commits suicide. What can be more of a self-advertising for anti-gun groups? Acting is average. Fiorentino is not bad, but this part is just not her type, IMHO, she should stick with femme fatale parts. And Wesley Snipes as crazy-yet-honest-gunman-blinded-by-rage-but-still-politically-correct ? Give me a break! He is good as Blade, but this character is too complicated for him. Anyway, the movie as as whole is awful. And this being an awful movie, the question is - do you feel lucky, that you came across my review and decided not to watch this garbage, punk? :)

I can't believe this garbage was even given the green light.Same Liberal nonsense that seems to be prevalent: Angry Black Man gets angry ,goes on a rampage and commits atrocities, all White people are responsible for evil,etc.I'd like to see Snipe's character go after the goons that used the handgun that killed his daughter. No, the gun just leaped into the killer's hands and society/white racism/society made him kill.This goes to show that liberals are the most racist of all, they can only picture black men as oppressed and thereby justified for any rampage or criminal acts as payback.I can't believe white people allow themselves to be run over and I'm not even white !Witness the remake of "Manchurian Candidate" where the original movie has been through the politically correct steam roller with the Red Chinese/North Korean villains replaced by white men.Too bad few reviewers have the spine to point this out.Unbowed