Murder at Hollow Creek

It attempts to blend the gritty tension of a murder mystery with the high-stakes thrills of a heist film. Unfortunately, it fails spectacularly on both counts, delivering a cinematic experience that's less "edge-of-your-seat" and more "edge-of-throwing-your-remote-at-the-screen".

It's hard to tell if the actors were phoning it in or simply struggling with the dreadful dialogue, which is a constant stream of clichés and exposition dumps

The "heist" itself is laughably inept. Forget intricate planning and nail-biting suspense; this is more of a disorganized scramble punctuated by moments of sheer incompetence.

The murder mystery aspect is equally disappointing. The clues are either too obvious or completely nonsensical, and the "twists" are predictable long before they arrive. The pacing is also way off.

Badly written with a decent cast. They keep writing these bad movies and the direction is even worse. I thought maybe with Casper Van Dien I'd get some good scenes with one of my favorite actors but no. It's crazy because you think because of the title, it's gonna be a scary or at least suspenseful movie, but its way too predictable. I think it's meant to be a comedy with all the pot involved but its just dumb.

It's apparent from the opening frame that this is a low budget, film school fiasco. What I can't wrap my mind around is how Jason Patrick and Mickey Rourke and Penelope Ann Miller let this see the light of day.

Just terrible. There's nothing else to say. Poorly written, poorly executed.

And now I'm going to fill up the space to fulfill the required character requirement by talking about my dog and how cute he is when he has his toy and how cute he is when he is sleeping in the morning and stays under the covers well past 10:00 a.m., hours after I've gotten up and gone to the other side of the house to work and my office.