Don't Talk to Strangers

It's interesting to see what shape Pierce Brosnan's career was in before Bond arrived on the scene. In this "tense" thriller, Pierce Brosnan plays the gentle Patrick, who works leading ghetto kids on "confidence courses". He romances a woman, who has a bog-standard mop-top mid-90s kid called Eric. The woman's drunken ex-husband soon arrives on the scene and begins to mess with Pierce.

At one stage Pierce is innocently making "vegeburgers". The husband enters. Pierce resumes making vegeburgers. The husband then assaults Pierce. Little chunks of half-eaten vegeburger call fall from Pierce's mouth. The fight abruptly ends without showing the outcome. This is as good as the film gets.

I enjoyed watching this film because it had a good twist to it, just when you tought you had every thing worked out something new came along.

I like Keegan Mactinosh, as I have seen quite a few films and shows with him in.

Most of the other actors are well known and provide good roles in the film too.

You will be surprised by Pierce Brosnan in this film a number of times, but the other actors are also excellent, Shanna Reed as the mother and Terry O'Quinn as the drinking father. It's a complicated family drama, beginning with divorce procedures in which the mother (Shanna Reed) gets all the custody of the boy, which the father (Terry O'Quinn) refuses to accept, which is why he from the beginning appears as the villain of the play. However, as matters develop, you learn that he is a policeman, and his objections against Shanna Reed's new husband (Pierce Brosnan) should be quite normal for a natural father, but he is not. Things really get complicated when the boy is kidnapped, and no one can understand by whom or why, since there is no demand for any ransom. Finally things get really heated when the kidnappers are located with a resulting shootout, but both Brosnan and O'Quinn also carry guns. Meanwhile the whole mess of the family business lying behind it all is gradually sorted out, and there are some final settlements. It's a great thriller, great acting performances, a very well written script revealing only morsels at a time, so there is no chance for any naps of boredom. You will stick to it till the end even if the final solution will occur afterwards.

This movie had a surprising end! But I loved it anyways! A nice movie to relax with...especially when my fav. actor Pierce Brosnan is in it!!

I don't usually watch crime thrillers as i find that genre upsetting. However, YouTube presented the option to watch and i watched the whole thing.

After letting the movie jerk me around for 2 hours (maybe less, as it is a quick paced film) i decided to check the wiki to clear up plot details.

I couldn't find much information online. Probably because the plot twists are arbitrary & not worth documenting.

I'm pretty eclectic in taste, tho i prefer rom-coms. There is nothing romantic about this film; most comedic are probably the car chase stunts!

In summary, there is not a single character in this film that i sympathised with. (The most heart-warming image is the male heavy smiling appropriately after playing the perfect asshole cop throughout most of the film.)