Joe

The movie had my attention the entre time! At first I thought " okay a bunch of really red rednecks" BUT the story behind these people was intense as well as sad. Cage does such a grerat job!! I have never seen him in a role like this one before. Worth the watch for sure and I'm glad I rented it!

Great movie. Good performance by actors. One of my favorite Nicholas cage movies.

Nicholas Cage is on Target. Great to the end. Classic evil vs. good!

I wasn’t a fan of this tired re-tread of southern gothic tropes and backwoods violence, long since seen many times over. Adding Nicolas Cage to this messy, boring affair made it all the more off-putting. It may get many of the details right, but it’s mystifying that critics loved this so much. It’s just as formulaic as any big-budget flick. David Gordon Green gets worse and worse as a director, the more he tries. I haven’t liked one film he’s made since All The Real Girls, and that was over a dozen years ago. Skip this one too.

Watchers should be aware there is a scene where Joe allows his dog to kill another dog. Sickening.

Thought this movie was well put together. Entertaining and realistic. After I watched it I looked up what other people thought about the film & about the ole’ guy who plays the homeless man. Ends ups he died shortly after the film was finished with production. So his performance was pretty much real life for him. Sad but gut-wrenchingly real. Go ahead and watch this movie.

Cage plays a ex-con, with anger issues, who feels the need to protect a good boy who has a horrible family. Dirty film about dirty lives. I wouldn’t call it gritty, more like life in a strange place inhabited by characters that you never want to meet. Similar to “Winter’s Bone” in that regards.

Best acting from Nicholas Cage I've seen! However, the scene location didn't not match Austin,Tx but looked more like the piney woods of east Texas. Nonetheless, this is a great movie to see!

At first, this movie seemed like it was going to a good movie. The trailer was good so I rented it. The movie seemed to drag on and on. This movie had no plot. There was violence and killing trees. It was decent acting but again, there was no plot to the movie. Would not watch again!

Hence the bad reviews. This movie is well-written, well-paced, well-acted (by non-professional actors, no less), and doesn’t have a cul-de-sac in a third-ring suburb ending. It’s messy - - like life. Buck up and watch how the other half lives (and dies). Congrats to the directors, actors, and producers of this film, who weren’t afraid to make something other than yet another easily digested piece of predictable, weightless fluff that is forgotten once you remember where you parked the car after the movie. Nicolas Cage continues to be one of the great actors of his generation.