I am not sure why this film has an average below 9 and do not understand people who gave this film one or two stars...The film is entertaining and keeps your attention from the beginning to the end - and what an end! I loved the atmosphere of the film, which is kinda uncomfortable and eerie in a way... Don't know why but that was the main plus for this film, alonside really great roles of 2 leading men and the girl too ( who, I must say, looks so much like Jessica Simpson - that I though it was her in the 1st scene in the car).I read that this is a remake. I did not watch the original nor I read the book, but this one was really great for me, so I do not have a wish to spoil it with something else.I give it rating 9, though, precisely it would be 8.6.Do watch the film and do not pay too much attention to negative reviews in a way to keep you off. See for yourself, I am sure you will enjoy it.

Have you seen it? No? There is likely a very good reason for that...it stinks.Like nearly ALL the endless remakes and reboots that have been plaguing movie goers for the past decade or so....all this is, is a heartless version of the original.It has no heart.It has no soul.It is a retelling of a film that we all love and cherish...and it adds nothing to the story. It improves nothing but the special effects--which held up very well over time--and in some cases belittles the fans of the original...particularly in the fact that they remade the movie at all, without adding anything clever to it.Like so many other remakes it is a hallow shell of the original.

L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both. Straw Dogs is your typical remake from Hollywood with great actors portraying roles that someone else did decades ago and although it's not a bad remake it still wasn't needed and it has some big plot holes for example his wife got raped and she didn't say anything to the police or her husband? Why? I don't know honestly then when he kills Charlie she is shocked but some minutes ago she murdered with a shotgun the 2nd guy who raped her because i'm pretty sure Charlie raped her too it's just that the scene was weird she kissed him, she pushed and she could easily escape from him when he took her underwear off why didn't she do it? Anyways as far as acting goes everyone was fine although Dominic Purcell was the best i was surprised to see Willa Holland in a role you know Thea Queen from Arrow? Anyways the remake of Straw Dogs is not exactly awful but it could be better.

The original 1971 Sam Peckinpah version was considered at the time one of the most controversial films ever, it was both odd and interesting to see that there was a remake exactly forty years later, directed by Rod Lurie (The Last Castle). Basically screenwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) and his wife Amy (Kate Bosworth) have travelled in his Jaguar to Amy's hometown of Blackwater, Mississippi to rebuild and move into the house of her father who has recently passed away. David intends to write his screenplay about Stalingrad while the work on the house goes on, he hires contractor Charlie (True Blood's Alexander Skarsgård) and his team of friends, Norman (Rhys Coiro), Chris (Billy Lush) and Bic (Drew Powell), to repair the roof. Amy was formerly Charlie's sweetheart when she lived in the town, neither him or his crew show any respect towards her, she has a few quarrels with David, as he is concerned she is showing herself up in front of the men, one day she retaliates by lifting her part and exposing herself to them. David is invited by Charlie to go hunting with his group for deer, in fact this was a ploy for the gang to leave him stranded in the woods, while they go back to the house and rape Amy. When David does return home Amy does not tell him what happened, but drunken former football coach Tom Heddon (James Woods) calls Charlie and his friends to hunt down Jeremy Niles (Dominic Purcell), who has an intellectual disability, and has affection Heddon's fifteen-year-old daughter Janice (Willa Holland). David decides to protect Jeremy in the house, obviously he is protecting Amy, but also his own honour, desperate times call for desperate measures as they are trapped inside the house by Charlie, Heddon and the gang who have turned aggressive, the end sees all gang members killed in nasty ways, Charlie has his head ensnared in a bear trap, David, Amy and Jeremy leave lost for words. Also starring Laz Alonso as John Burke and The Hateful Eight's Walton Goggins as Daniel Niles. Marsden and Bosworth cannot compare to the more believable Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, only Skarsgård and Woods are alright among the nasty bozo buddies, the plot follows roughly the same story as the original, only relocating from rural England to redneck America, only problem it feels like a lazy effort to recreate what we've already seen, yes it is more gory towards the end, but the synonymous rape scene and violence are no longer shocking, definitely stick to the original, this is a pretty dull and boring psychological thriller remake. Adequate!