Jason Lancaster

Directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky Mckee.

Brian Cox plays a 65 year old veteran who has lost his immediate family and now runs a small general goods store in the American Northwest. Three local kids try to rob him at gun point while he’s fishing but when they find out he had nothing worth stealing they shot his dog. Cox struggles to get justice for the death of his dog in an honorable way by going through the law. By film’s end, he decides on a more direct approach.

The film has frequent inconsistencies in the plot and was poorly adapted. The way the directors chose to add bits of the main character’s history along the way was confusing and often distracted from the main storyline. There were also characters such as Pete and his family that could have been left out completely or developed more. The reporter’s employment changes without explanation and seems to be done out of weak writing. This adaptation from a novel by Jack Ketchum has a sense of being in principal photography while being written at the same time; the background of the main character comes peace-meal as the story progresses.