Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Ricardo Daly The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

seymourblack-1 "Betrayed" begins with a brutal assassination in Chicago and then focuses on a budding romance in a small town in the American Midwest. Although initially, there's no obvious connection between the assassination and the romance, the story that explains the link is full of surprises as it reveals the existence of a huge political conspiracy and the fact that neither of the lovers are quite who they appear to be.Undercover FBI Agent Cathy Weaver (Debra Winger) is assigned to investigate the killing of a controversial radio talk-show host and moves to a Corn Belt town as one of a team of combine drivers who undertake contract work during the wheat harvest. When she meets handsome local farmer Gary Simmons (Tom Berenger) and his family, she starts to fall in love with him and can't believe that this charming widower could possibly be implicated in the crime she's investigating. When she shares her views with her boss Mike Carnes (John Heard), he isn't convinced and orders her to keep working on the case.As the couple become closer, Gary wants Cathy (who poses as Katie Phillips) to know everything about his life because the fact that his first wife didn't, was part of the reason why they eventually went their separate ways. He tells her he's going to take her out on a hunt but, to her horror, when they get to the night-time location where they meet the rest of the hunting group, she discovers that the prey is a black man who's given a gun with 10 bullets and is then hunted down like an animal. After enduring this traumatic experience, Cathy goes on to discover that Gary is a member of a well-organised national white supremacist organisation that's committed to overthrowing the government and that his hatred of black people, Jews and gays is also shared by his entire family.Mike Carnes was Cathy's previous lover and his insistence that she continues with her undercover work leads to her participating in a bank robbery and a Ku Klux Klan meeting while she continues to gather the evidence that her boss is determined she must find. Her predicament becomes increasingly unbearable and makes her question her loyalties between Gary, who obviously thinks the world of her and her FBI boss who seems determined to make her life a living hell.The characters in "Betrayed" are interesting and well fleshed out. Cathy is inexperienced as an FBI agent and as an orphan, is seduced as much by Gary's idyllic family life as she is by the man himself. Gary is a decorated Vietnam veteran, a committed churchgoer and a clean-cut family man who appears to be ultra-respectable but is in fact, content to participate in acts of criminality and extreme violence in order to support the aims of the anti-government terrorist organisation that he supports. Debra Winger and Tom Berenger are both absolutely convincing in their roles and John Heard's also very good as Cathy's autocratic boss whose actions seem to be motivated by his own personal agenda as much as his official responsibilities."Betrayed" is powerful, provocative and shocking and contains passages that are deeply disturbing. The technique of very gradually revealing the full horror behind the events depicted at the beginning of the movie is extremely effective but would have made even more of an impact if the pacing had been sharper during some sequences. Overall however, this movie packs a real punch and leaves a lasting impression.

tonybutler2435 This movie is in the top 5 of my most favorite movies of all time! Not only was it very well choreographed it was also incredibly revealing! I remember so many of the mysterious events, as this movie has revealed, in a period of time when there were unsolved murders of black folks found in Rock Creek Park from 1980 through 1986. Many people would find these true events revealed by this movie unbelievable or too far fetched! We live in the melting pot and everyone has the freedom to think and feel the way they do! I'm a black man born and raised in these United States and can understand the plight of the white supremacist. You will believe in what you were taught and raised to believe but some have come to know that we are all related because we all were created from and by one GOD! It's truly an incredible movie!

lost-in-limbo After the brutal gun-down of a radio disc jockey, an FBI agent goes undercover in the search of white supremacists planning something big. But things get complicated when she falls in love with her target along with his children. A well meaning, if humid political drama, but it comes across rather heavy-handed and convoluted in its message making it far from entertaining to watch. Interesting, but only in parts and there's a real bitter tone evident. However profound, multi-facet performances by leads Debra Winger and Tom Berenger with a capable support cast; John Heard, Betsy Blair and John Mahoney keep it grounded. After a simple set-up, it show its dark underbelly and truthfully embraces it as our protagonist thinks she knows the man, but isn't really prepared and finds herself right in the deep end. The outrageous climax is baffling and some moments seem to lull during the family interactions, but these sequences are important to building character and illustrating the unnerving nature of racism (like the camp-out scenes)."Whose side are you on?"

jc-osms You have to admire Costa-Gavras for at least taking on touchy subjects in his Hollywood movies - Nazi-collaboration war crimes in "Music Box" and the frustrating search for truth after the disappearance of relatives in world hot-spots in "Missing", but here he lets his predilection for delivering a thriller compromise his intentions in exposing the barbarism and inhumanity of white supremacists who masquerade under the guise of normality.After the brutal slaying of a controversial shock-jock after a typical heated programme on the issue of race, we cut to an apparently innocent country-girl (Debra Winger), cutting the fields of a young, good-looking, recently widowed land-owner in the American south (Tom Berenger) and her gradually inveigling herself into his family and affections. Of course it turns out she's working undercover for the authorities in attempting to bring to light the nefarious doings of a terrorising cell of ZOG, a right-wing racist group following a neo-Nazi agenda (although without the attendant paraphernalia) strongly suspected of the hit and of whom Berenger is the alleged leader.But what could have turned to be a still-relevant morality tale on the dangers posed by such monstrous people and how they can pass themselves off as ordinary average people in society, gets thrown off-kilter by too much focus on the moral dilemmas it puts onto Winger's character and a propensity to deliver cheap supposedly end-of-your-seat thrills in the best Hollywood tradition.Winger, irrationally you would think for a hardened agent, it seems falls in love and into bed with Berenger almost immediately and in short order becomes his fiancée as well as the adored new mother to Berenger's cutesy kids and prospective daughter-in-law to his protective mother. From there she ingratiates herself into Berenger's ZOG organisation, undergoing a throughly disgusting initiation involving a night-time manhunt to brutally kill as sport, a young terrified Negro and then taking on a Patty Hearst-type role in a bank-job to fund the planned hit on a politician whose death will supposedly foment racial tensions and presumably invoke a WASP uprising.Besides the last item there being hi-jacked from "The Manchurian Candidate", it's all just too improbable for words and falls under the weight of its own however well-intentioned pretensions. Winger's part requires her to do little but simper when Berenger is nice to her and protest when her boss keeps telling her to go back in to finish her job. There's little she can do to make us think this honey-trap situation could ever have happened in reality plus the love-interest between her and her boss only further distorts credibility. Berenger is however very good as the handsome country boy farmer with a dark side but again you could never imagine him opening himself up lock stock and barrel to Winger's character so soon after his previous wife had learned about his other life and paid for it with her life.There are one or two thought-provoking scenes, besides the gruesome man-hunt mentioned above, particularly the stomach-churning scenes where Berenger's infant children start spouting racial bile once Winger gets engaged to dad and the slightly more subtle encounter between her and a seeming nice-guy who nonetheless betrays his ignorance and bigotry the deeper they converse round the camp-fire of the Ku Klux Clan brotherhood.By the time, however, we get to the inevitable conclusion with Winger and Berenger in an armed stand-off and later again when Winger heads back out to Berenger's young daughter's school for what reason I can't imagine, the film has imploded under the weight of its own sensationalism and conflicting aims.Like I said at the start, it was brave of the director to take on this subject (and anyone who's since seen Louis Theroux's Weird Weekend encounter with a latter-day real-life group of American white supremacists at work rest and play will concur that people like this do exist) but the whole is just too far fetched and unbelievable to hang together as it should.