Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Stevieboy666 Dark crime thriller about two cops investigating a serial killer who leaves the victims in bayous in Texas. Nice rural locations and good use of the colour green here. It's pretty creepy & tense at times, plus it has one standout scene where a woman is viciously attacked in her own home, which wouldn't look out of place in a good slasher movie. * spoiler alert * - despite a few red herrings the identity of the killer is obvious very early on in the film. Pity Danny Boyle turned it down, I'm sure he'd have done a better job, though this is still a reasonable, if forgettable, movie.

Genivieve DeClare The best films are able to immerse us their world. The best of the best make the world they evoke inviolate, complete and seamless. For a film about the pervasiveness of evil this reality becomes uncomfortably claustrophobic, confining us to a place so dark and disturbing yet so familiar that every sound, every movement is a potential portent of doom, every character menaced and menacing with no respite from the tensions that pervade this toxic but very real place. The film is only a police procedural in so far as there are flawed but dedicated detectives trying to hold the line against a pervasive climate of poverty, hopelessness and desperation where basic decency is at a premium and life is cheap. To allow one's self to be drawn in, to give one's self over to such a place of everyday horror is an act of courage on the part of the viewer. It is the kind of commitment that the best films demand. The rewards are spare. We come out with a visceral sense of the limits of civilisation itself. We are more aware by what a fragile thread our comfort and security depends. How near we are to chaos. The menacing place this film creates is the protagonist and it's antagonist all at once. The players ably acquit themselves in their respective supporting roles. The story is simple and logically concluded. The 'good guys' win but the menace remains. Theirs is a fool's errand.

poe426 Texas KILLING FIELDS moves at a carefully measured pace and, like movies like MEMORIES OF MURDER and ZODIAC, it draws the viewer in slowly but surely. By eschewing the grandiose, over-the-top action typical of most big budget murder movies (or most any TV show), it rings truer than most- which, in this case, is apropos, as the movie is ostensibly based on the Real World Texas Killing Fields murders. (Going in, I thought that someone had finally solved the scores of murders in Texas and made a movie a la ZODIAC about the case(s), but not so.) TRUE DETECTIVE, the series made for cable, started off not unlike Texas KILLING FIELDS, with some interesting (but LOW KEY) characters in a more or less true-to-life type of police procedural, but they blew it when the fourth episode turned into an unnecessary assault on The Projects action episode. Texas KILLING FIELDS avoids that particular pitfall. Admirably.

estebangonzalez10 "Once in...There's no way out."Texas Killing Fields had the potential to be one of those rare and memorable suspense thrillers that actually work; it had a strong cast, the cinematography was beautifully executed by Stuart Dryburgh creating a depressing atmosphere fitting the tone of the story, and an interesting premise. But somewhere along the way the execution didn't work and the film failed to live up to its potential. I can't say if it was the script or the editing, but the story felt incomplete and incoherent at times. Ami Canaan Mann, Michael Mann's daughter, failed to dig deeper into the storyline and the result was a sort of disjointed film. I still enjoyed the film for the atmosphere and suspense it was creating, but the two different story lines never seemed to be fully developed and I couldn't help but feel that something was left out in the editing floor. I kept on expecting more, but I was disappointed despite the solid performances. I'm a fan of gritty detective stories, and this film does succeed in being gritty and dark, but the detective elements of the story never added up. I'm currently watching the HBO series, True Detective, and that show absolutely gets everything that this movie didn't, right. Skip this film and watch True Detective instead.Inspired by true events, Don Ferrarone wrote the screenplay about a series of murders taking place in the Texas Killing Fields. When the film opens we are introduced to Detectives Mike Sauder (Sam Worthington) and Brian Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who are investigating a murder that took place near a gas station. Brian receives a call from Detective Pam Stall (Jessica Chastain) about a missing woman who she believes might be yet another victim of a serial killer who leaves the bodies of young girls in the abandoned Texas Killing Fields. Pam is Mike's ex- wife and Mike insists that they can't help her because those cases are out of their jurisdiction and they have to solve this case they are in now. However they still try to help out while working on their case. Brian is a loving father who takes an interest in a young girl named Ann (Chloe Grace Moretz) who comes from an abusive dysfunctional family, while Mike is more of a loner. Mike's clues lead him to investigate two local criminals (one of them played by Jason Clarke), while Brian is more focused on finding the serial killer in the dangerous Killing Fields. Both investigations really caught my attention, but unfortunately one of them was kind of left out and forgotten at the end leaving me feeling a bit disappointed. The two main actors give solid performances, but their characters share the typical clichés found in other buddy cop films. Chastain is a seriously talented actress, but unfortunately her character didn't have much to work with. She has little screen time and is underused. I'm a huge fan of Chloe Grace Moretz and I have seen most of her films, but her character doesn't do much in this story either. None of the characters were developed too well and the film basically focused on the police procedural that began promising but got off track really quick by presenting two disjointed story lines. I can see how this film might work for some people because it has a talented cast, but I just felt it was a bit disjointed and incomplete. I'm still glad they made a film about this side of America that is usually not presented in Hollywood.