sol (There are Spoilers) Things aren't what you think that they are in "Don't Talk to Strangers" with a build up that keeps you guessing just who's trying to kidnap little Eric Bonner, Keegan Macintose, from his divorced mother Jane, Shanna Reed.It's when Jane got total custody of Eric that her ex-husband Robert Bonner, Terry O'Quinn, started stalking her day and night making Jane's life miserable. It's not that long after her divorce that Jane, and aerobic instructor, got romantically involved with one of her students the handsome and dashing health food addict Patrick Brody, Pierce Brosnan. In what seemed like a matter of day Partick not only made himself a permanent guest at Jane's home but got very friendly with Eric, who at first didn't like him, and had Jane fall in love and marry him!Robert a police detective realizing that his ex-wife Jane left him for another man started to check up on Patrick and started smelling a rat in his not so perfect past. Patrick spent time in prison for forgery and has been planning to marry Jane not because of love but because of Eric whom he has a great fondness for. A fondness that he had for Eric well before he found out where he lived and who his parents, Jane & Robert, were!The movie has both Jane & Patrick traveling to California and being stalked by Robert the entire way. It's not until almost half the film is over that we, and Jane, finally realize why Robert is so determined to keep Eric from being Patrick's step-son as well as keeping the real circumstances of Eric's birth from his wife Jane. It's the real reason that Robert started to drink heavily just after Eric was born which was one of the main reasons that he lost custody of him! Well acted movie that has a number of surprises in it that don't get out of hand and look ridicules in trying to shock its audience! The biggest surprise of all is the that it's able to stay on focus and still be believable even with the sudden turn of events in the films final five or so minutes.

rsoonsa A conventional genre for filmmakers may be titled Theatre of Paranoia, within which are copious examples, this piece being one, wherein a protagonist is stalked or harried or wrongly envisioned or trapped or prejudiced against, i.e., in some way made to suffer by, generally, one person distracted by jealousy or some other mania. The victim here is Jane Bonner, splendidly played by Shanna Reed, who is tormented by her former husband Robert (Terry O'Quinn), a police detective with an extraordinary amount of free time who is maddened due to the disbanding of a joint custody agreement for the ex-couple's eight-year-old son, during divorce proceedings, Bonner's harassment becoming so acute that Jane and her new spouse Patrick (Pierce Brosnan) decide to leave their Saint Louis home and drive to California to start life anew, only to have Bonner trail them. Director Robert Lewis paces the film solidly during its initial scenes only to have his efforts hamstrung by excessive cutting along with a disjointed screenplay that is heavily reliant upon fancy, in addition to below standard post-production work (e.g., a car following Jane and Patrick is seen being driven from both sides of the front seat by its sole occupant), and a garish lack of knowledge concerning law enforcement procedures is only too evident.Throughout this foolish affair that the film becomes, Reed shines, easily gathering in acting honours with a subtly layered and credible performance, and O'Quinn also acts well, especially in light of his written dialogue. Richard Leiterman's cinematography is expert as always and fitting underscoring is contributed by Joseph Conlan, but the scenario's collapse into nearly total incongruity and odd character metamorphosis becomes too great of a handicap.

MaxHush The first thing I'll say about the film is this. Pierce. Yes, the mighty mighty Pierce. Don't be fooled though, just because of Pierce factor it doesn't mean that this movie is good, far from it infact. From Pierce demonstrating his culinary skills at making vegeburgers, to Pierce being violently assulted while sitting on a stool eating said vegeburgers this movie is poor, and believe me, it could have been better but for the directing. Pierces acting is nothing short of grade A, but the entire film seems pushed along quickly, and that, combined with the bogstandard plot makes it seem like the director wanted the maximum amount of Pierce in the movie, hoping that that alone would hold up the movie, sadly it didn'tVerdict - Bogstandard plot(0) + rushed scenes(0) + Peirce(4) > 4/10

zeo1 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.