Your Donations support the Site

Buy Cranky stuff


Buy Movie Posters

Top Selling DVD     Books

  BLU-RAY DVDs:
The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
Happy Feet Two
Footloose (2011)
Tower Heist
Angels and Demons
The Rum Diary
Avatar
Batman Begins
Dark Knight
Fifth Element
The Hangover
James Bond 11 disc coll.
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Mission Impossible GP
Sherlock Holmes AGOS
Star Wars Saga
Ultimate Matrix coll
X-Men First Class
X-Men Trilogy
X-Men Wolverine
 BLU-Ray for Family DVDs 
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Bambi
A Bug's Life
Cars
Chronicles of Narnia set
Coraline
Ghostbusters
Harry Potter 1-8 collection
Iron Man 2 combo
Kung Fu Panda
Lord of the Rings Trilogy Pinocchio
Pirates of Caribbean trilogy
Pixar short films
Ratatouille
Shrek the Whole Story
Sleeping Beauty
The Smurfs combo
Snow White & 7 Dwarfs
Star Trek motion pictures set
Star Wars Saga (1-6)
Toy Story combo
Toy Story 2 combo
Toy Story 3 combo
Wall-E SE

Search engine by FreeFind

click to search site

      Now in Release
The Avengers
Bernie
Carnage
Hunger Games
Joyful Noise
Killing Bono
Three Stooges
Trust

TV/Movie Collectibles

Privacy Policy

IN SHORT: War is bad.

From an absolutely and strictly film school view, actor Tim Roth's first gig in the director's chair is a very effective and fairly complete piece of work. A film is supposed to evoke reactions in its audiences. The War Zone does. A film is supposed to do that by providing well rounded characters whose actions, even if we don't understand or like them, we believe. The War Zone almost does that. It should also provide the characters with enough "background" to make them seem more realistic. The War Zone has problems with that. Still, this movie (based on the book by Alexander Stuart) is definitely going to stir reaction. As in, why the hell did I pay my money for this thing?

"The molten emotional power that flows from Tim Roth's directorial debut carries multiple messages that sear one's soul" says the indie Sundance Festival site. Yep, film festivals and film students love despicable stories that make you want to puke.

The War Zone is a story of a lower middle class Brit family freshly moved from urban London to boring as hell Devon. Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) aged fifteen, is bored out of his mind in this, the summer of the move. School looms in the near future, but there isn't much for him to do in a community with no local kidlets his age to hang with. Mom (Tilda Swinton) is off tending to their newly born sister and Dad (Ray Winstone) is busy trying to make a living. Older sister Jessie (Lara Belmont), seventeen, has it a bit better. Jessie's got her wings spread and eyes set on a return to the big city, there to start college. It's a normal family with a normal life until, one day, while moping around, Tom looks in the window and sees his sister in the bathtub with dad.

Luckily, we don't get to see what he sees. The implication is enough and when Tom confronts Jessie, who happens to be lying naked in her bed (modesty doesn't run deep in any of the characters of this story), she denies that anything is going on. To Tom, everything he sees indicates that his sister is lying to him. He finds some polaroid pictures. He finds a video camera. He shoots a tape and we get to see exactly what he sees. And it's not even close to done.

The War Zone is a bleak, despicable, and unpleasant beyond your wildest dreams story that made Cranky wish he could run for the exit within half an hour. I can't do that, of course. Trust me, even once you get past the really unpleasant part, the film gets even more unpleasant.

On average, a first run movie ticket will run you Eight Bucks. Were Cranky able to set his own price to The War Zone, he would have paid...

$0.00

You will see raves for this flick. I already see an internet PR engine kicking into high gear. Other on-line reviewers rated this flick at 4 stars. Technically? Maybe. Are you going to want to sit through this incredibly unpleasant flick? Not if you are still in possession of your stomach.

Buy movie posters!

BUY THE LATEST DVDs
Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen) DVD (Full Screen)	Lord of the Rings Trilogy DVD
Marx Bros collection	Alfred Hitchcock Collection
Looney Toons Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Rocky & Bullwinkle Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Star Trek TOS Star Trek TNG Star Trek Films Criterion Collections

TV/Movie Collectibles

online movie critics

Privacy Policy

We're Kidlet Safe

Search engine
by FreeFind

click to search site

   Now in Release:

The Band's Visit
Definitely Maybe
Hottie and the Nottie
In Bruges
Iron Man
Be Kind Rewind
Rambo
Cloverfield
Mad Money
U2 3D

28 Weeks Later
Black Book
Bourne Ultimatum
Brooklyn Rules
Death at a Funeral
Evening
The Ex
Fido
Georgia Rule
Grindhouse
Hairspray
Harry Potter - Phoenix
The Hoax
Hot Rod
I Know Who Killed Me
La Vie en Rose
License to Wed
Live Free or Die Hard
Mr. Brooks
Next
No Reservatons
Ocean's Thirteen
Perfect Stranger
Pirates of Caribbean
Ratatouille
Rescue Dawn
Rush Hour 3
Severance
Sicko
Simpsons Movie
Slow Burn
Snow Cake
Spider-Man 3
Stardust

    DVDs on Sale:
300
Alice in Wonderland
Batman Begins
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner
Bridge to Terabithia
Charlie + Chocolate Factory
Cinderella
E.T.
Fantastic Four
Forrest Gump
Gone With the Wind
Harry Potter yrs 1-3 set
Harry Potter Azkaban
The Incredibles
Indiana Jones trilogy
The Lion King
Lord of Rings 12 discs
Mary Poppins 40th LE
Ultimate Matrix set
Miss Potter
Monty Python - Grail
Napoleon Dynamite
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Shrek
Shrek 2
Sin City
Sleeping Beauty
South Park Movie
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Star Wars Ep. 1
Star Wars Ep. 2
Star Wars 3 Full Screen
Star Wars 3 l'box
Star Wars Trilogy (4-6)
The Island
War of the Worlds
X-Men
X-Men 2