Rating: R
Genre:
Western
Theatrical Release: 01/26/2007(USA)
Release Date: 05/15/2007
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 112 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures
Frequent television director
David Von Ancken (
Oz and
The Shield) offers a thrilling meditation on the true nature of revenge with this post-Civil War era tale of a one man's quest to put his nemesis in the ground, and another man's struggle to survive at any cost. Deep in the snowy mountains of the American West, a lone man named
Gideon (
Pierce Brosnan) basks, lost in thought, in the warm glow of a small fire. When a shot suddenly rings out and a bullet whizzes just inches from his head,
Gideon is suddenly pulled from his repose. His reaction is too slow, however, to save him from the impact of a second bullet fired immediately thereafter; a bullet that painfully lodges itself into the soft flesh of
Gideon's tired shoulder. The man who fired these bullets is
Colonel Morsman Carver (
Liam Neeson), and
Carver's goal is to hunt
Gideon down like an animal and extract painful revenge for a past transgression that left
Colonel Carver forever changed. From this point on, there will be no peace in either man's life as a harrowing game of kill-or-be-killed is played out against the backdrop of the awe-inspiring and deceptively treacherous wilderness where the unforgiving law of the land takes deadly precedence over the civility of modern society.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
