Bob_the_Hobo A nameless drifter (Val Kilmer) ambles into a police department in the middle of the night to tell the night watchman that he has killed six people. Arrested and booked, the drifter tells Detective Black (Dylan Neal) that the murders haven't happened yet. The six police officers quickly find that the man in their captivity is describing what will happen to them throughout the night.Val Kilmer's newest straight-to-video offering is a clever, definitely creepy idea that never quite connects with the themes it tries to make or the audience is tries to draw. Kilmer has staked his claim with low-budget action, now he tries his hand at horror. He's just short of what could have been a royal flush."The Traveler" has some aspects in its favor. Kilmer ably performs the mysterious stranger, though his performance seems to unravel as the film draws to a close. John Cassini and Chris Gauthier play two of the potential victims and come close to being memorable. The latter especially does his best with what he has and makes a sympathetic performance. Though no one matches Dylan Neal, who is the strongest of the cast as the detective with something to hide."The Traveler" is also not without its faults. Clichéd, hackneyed characters do little to make the film better. As the film continues on, it faces problems with continuity and elaboration on exactly who the stranger is. The biggest downturn is the script, which offers fewer and fewer answers to the questions it asks and doesn't seem interested in answering any of them by the end, leaving me a puzzled viewer.I give it a well-deserved five out of ten stars. It's a solid effort and worth a watch if you want a film that both makes you think and turns your brain off.

kent-s3 I just signed up to Netflix and whilst scrolling through the horror section i came upon this movie.I always find characters who refuse to reveal who they are or what their motivations are always fascinating.I think the film is succinct and there is no unnecessary filler to pad it out.In essence it is basically a haunted house horror film,but the haunted house in question is a police station.There is plenty of gore in this film,but i think its justified in the sense that what the perpetrators of the offence did, deserved to have grisly terminations for there guilty deeds.The film is succinct and has no unnecessary filler,i can wholeheartedly recommend this film to any horror fan without question.Just like to add,do people give this film one or two stars just to look clever or smart, because it doesn't impress me very much.The new blood sport,ripping a movie to shreds for no discernible reason....very sad people.

Robert W. Netflix has this way of making you watch things you would never ever watch any other time. However, The Traveler did look like it might have some promise. Its true Val Kilmer doesn't exactly have a star studded career in the last...decade...and that's being generous but the film looked like it had a creepy isolated stranger feel to it and I enjoy that. Its sort of a Stephen King concept but not brilliant. Its poorly slapped together, the cast is sub par and the film starts to fall apart when it should have been climaxing. The premise is almost captivating...the stranger who comes in and confesses to six murders and as he tells the story of the murders, the murders happen around them, to the members in the precinct. Then the story becomes a supernatural ghost story not unlike a certain western I once watched, called High Plains Drifter...but comparing those two movies is like comparing...well a great movie to crap. Had they spent more time, casted better and just generally had a better film making crew this could have been something but instead it was barely B-Movie.Val Kilmer...once an eighties and sorta nineties star has practically dropped off the Hollywood radar. He always kind of had a certain intensity about him but his role as the stranger in this film and he makes the role laughable and that really hurts the film. He overacts, looks silly and the performance falls apart. Character actor Dylan Neal actually gives a solid and strong performance as the head of the precinct. He gets a strong back story to his character and really carries the film giving it any of its credibility. The rest of the cast are all basically fodder and filler. No one really stands out but everyone gets some basic personalities to their various characters. I could go through the list of supporting casts but honestly...none of them stand out whatsoever.I was a little surprised to discover Michael Oblowitz is not new to directing. In fact the South African director has a dozen titles to his name and some of them quite well respected. But the directing isn't the biggest issue to the film. There is a certain style to the overall film and while some IMDb reviewers complain about the gore, it is at the heart of it all a horror movie and the over the top blood splattering gore is the only thing that might enable this film to find a foot hole with horror fans. This one is a road bump in what had some potential but unless you're in need of a bad B-Movie romp...skip this one with something just better. 6/10

mwr9993 A few twist that are some what predictable. Not quite as predictable as the other raters say. It definitely is a "B" grade movie.Yes, it is low budget and I am sorry to see Val in all these "B" movie roles. Graphic depictions are as you would expect in a "B" movie. If you are easily bored by a slightly slow set up, then you will miss out along the way. Sure there are twist that make you you think "What?". Other raters call it cheesy if they paid full theater price! One scene set up is missing a link that some may say messed up the flow. Don't get caught up on that. It is a "B" movie.I would not have paid full price for this when it was in the theater. If you like horror movies it is a must see to rent from the low priced movie machines.