Woodsman

Pros: Bacon's outstanding performance
Cons: Tough, tough subject matter

I didn’t like this movie. Yes, I did. No, I didn’t. Wait, yes I did. Sigh. It seems I’m in something of a quandary, doesn’t it? That’s quite unusual, but this is quite an unusual film. The Woodsman is the type of film that forces quandary ...

Pros: none
Cons: That is was made, the subject matter, the sympathy asked for by story

* A brief warning that the subject matter of this review is pretty intense, so only proceed with caution. The Woodsman is one of those films that attempts to deal with a tough subject by drawing sympathy from its audience. It strives to show that ...

Pros: Never-before-seen subject matter.
Cons: Child molesters should be given the death penalty, not made subjects for movies.

The Woodsman stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted child molester who re-enters society after spending twelve years in prison. He gets a job at a lumber mill where he had previously worked and soon meets a woman, but the local police and his co-workers ...

Pros: Sympathy for a pedophile? Kevin Bacon is very convincing in this role.
Cons: Subject matter is very tough to watch.

I don't recall ever seeing a movie that deals with the terrible subject of pedophilia, at least not from the perspective of making the viewer feel some sympathy for the pedophile. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, husband and wife in real life, star ...

Pros: cutting-edge story, great performances, moments when things really click
Cons: a little slow, very sensitive subject

You can tell a lot about an actor by the choices he's willing to make. For some, a real "acting stretch" is a new hairdo. For others, it's the adoption of a cause celebre. For a few, it's the willingness to accept a role nobody else is willing to ...

Pros: Bacon, without a doubt
Cons: ...

“Do you want to sit on my lap?” Perfectly ordinary question, one asked thousands of times a year. Mostly innocent in nature, but there are those twisted people that derive a perverse pleasure by having a young person nestled on their ...

Pros: Kevin Bacon’s and Hannah Pilkes performances.
Cons: Parts of the movie are contrived.

Is it me, or does it seem like there has been a virtual explosion of pedophile and other sexually related arrests in the last decade? Sex offender watch lists, child molesters, pedophile priests, not to mention the proliferation of Internet child ...

Pros: A good theme, well-acted
Cons: Gives the pedophile too much sympathy

Seeing Kevin Bacon on the cover of The Woodsman was enough to pick it up and give it another look. The topic, a pedophile trying to reclaim his life, made it worth taking it home, particularly when finding out that said pedophile is being played by said ...

Pros: Kevin Bacon, great cast, tense atmosphere, original story
Cons: Unsettling subject matter

Controversy is something that either makes or breaks a film. Sometimes it works in a movie’s favor and creates hype, which worked relatively well for films like Brokeback Mountain (which I don’t even understand why it was so controversial; gay sex ...

Pros: Horrific, though Interesting subject matter - Kevin Bacon
Cons: Don't expect a Great Story - It isn't here.

I have a family member who has been a police officer the majority of her career. At one point in time, she was placed in the office as a detective. What she was trying to detect, however, became something of a personal hardship for her. She was working ...

Pros: A gutsy movie which tries to look at a taboo subject.
Cons: Probably too emotion-laden an issue to be seen objectively.

If Kevin Bacon has a major career flaw as an actor, it is that he may perhaps be brave beyond reason. He is an excellent actor, to be sure, but his courage in being willing to choose parts that are all over the spectrum of possible dramatic roles makes ...

Pros: Everything, particularly Bacon and the climax.
Cons: Nothing.

If you want to gain a following, one of the best things to do is reveal the human consumed by a demon. Our society frowns upon making monsters out of people, and yet we do it all the time. Pedophiles, murderers, and burglars are all human, but "the ...

Pros: A fine treatment for a taboo subject.
Cons: A bit too quiet at times for this age-deafened chair-filler.

As we all now know, and as we all should see in the brilliant bio-pic, "Kinsey," few things in the human psyche are more complicated than sexuality. We are what we love, perhaps. Or, better yet, we are defined by what arouses us. Homosexuality, once ...

Pros: Bacon is superb, unexpected angle, beautifully shot, almost perfect musical score
Cons: relationship with Vickie doesn't work, avoids much examination of the reaction to Walter's release

The Woodsman is a beautifully shot, well acted, dark and disturbing movie about a child molester. More precisely, it is about a man trying to rebuild his life after his release from jail, a man trying to change his habits, overcome his ...

Pros: Kevin Bacon, supporting cast
Cons: Some viewers might not be able to see past the subject matter

For some, this is not an easy movie to watch. From some of the reviews posted here, it seems that people have more sympathy for death-row murderers than rapists. I do not believe that the writer, director or producer of this movie intended to make up ...