Hide (2008)

Good concept, poorly executed.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Through-out this movie, I was amazed at how the images looked on the screen, the use of color and light. I know, as an audience member, we're not really supposed to notice that sort of stuff, but I did and it added.Before seeing this movie, I was complete ignorant about Rachel Miner (Betty) and Christian Kane (Billy). The story focuses on them, revolves around them, and is told in a series of flashbacks. The opening scene is remarkably compelling before revealing that it's actually a flashback.Meanwhile, this modern day Bonnie and Clyde are a couple worth watching. Rachel Miner's Betty is a joy against Christian Kane's Billy. I don't know if that's Miner's natural accent, but if it isn't, she's spot on. Same is true of Kane's, though Miner's is sweet music through-out. She's one bad-assed chick.Spoiler alert: The ending is a bit wonky. Takes a moment to sort it all out and put things into perspective and then you feel a bit cheated as you realize, "okay, so most of that never really happened then, it's just his punishment?"

I'm not quite sure what to make of this story of Billy and Betty, two Bonnie and Clyde wannabes who go on a rampage out of a Quentin Tarantino movie and then find out that there is no running from your actions. The film starts with the events in a diner and then jump to seven years later when Betty frees Billy from a prison van and they go on the run. The past present and future seem to mingle as someone seems to be after them and they ponder if one can ever be free of past deeds. This is a well made, if derivative film (it relies way too much on Tarantino and others). The performances are good, but the problem is the script which tries to have things every which it can before it gets really confused for the WTF ending. I like the film, I really do, but I don't love it. I think one some level I liked the potential, the sense that perhaps something special was going to happen. I didn't like that it never really materialized. (To be honest I think what I think made me like the film was that at times the film seemed to aping and copying Quentin Tarantino in the way that Tarantino copies all the films he rips off with a style that occasionally out shone the source.) Is the film worth seeing? Perhaps. I think that the film is best summed up as an interesting misfire with moments that work and show promise and others, particularly the ending, that will leave you scratching your head.

watched this movie tonight, it was very very dry...we almost turned it off............................but we figured to keep going.......boy was it a mistake............... the acting.............sucked...............the plot...............well it was more of a made for TV movie based on a true story............... if you value any sec of your time...don't watch this...i want my time back but will never get it....just say no to indy films...they all suck...they are just like this... I was asking my wife.."do you think they got paid for this?? like the main actors" we figured maybe like a few hundred a week? awful awful stuff.. I don't know why I keep seeing crappy movies but there are just so many of them!!!!!!!!!

Modern day trailer park version of Bonnie and Clyde, "Billy Bear" and "Betty Boop" are introduced to us within a diner ala Pulp Fiction discussing the passion with which the working class operate compared to big city employees who work with little dedication. We soon discover that these two have murdered everyone who had the misfortune of being in that diner, with the police outside having the place surrounded. They, with loot in tow(..they had previously robbed a bank and killed many innocents at the scene), exit the diner guns blazing ala Butch Cassady and The Sundance Kid. Billy(Christian Kane)informs us of his seven years behind bars being moved to another jail, when his baby doll, Betty(Rachel Miner)causes the transport truck to flip thanks to a diesel truck she had commandeered plowing into it. Billy, having been rescued by Betty, awakens inside a little hotel room and the two plan for their future. But, Billy, seemingly reformed having plenty of time to contemplate his murderous deeds and the blood on his hands, tries to refrain from violent and sadistic activities and is constantly urged by Betty into steering back to the old ways. Meanwhile, it seems someone is following them and Billy constantly reminds Betty that they must indeed pay for their past sins. We see that someone off-screen is torturing Billy's lovely and innocent sister Jenny(Polly Shannon) and a prison guard who snapped photos of her bound and gagged. Will this sadist catch up with Billy and Betty? Will Billy and Betty in fact face the consequences of their actions, for all the blood they've shed? Poor Rachel Miner really wrestles with the accent and persona of a white trash southern princess, trying her damnedest to make just a role work, but I think it's just too much for her to handle. She wears little to nothing, short mini-skirts and little shirts which are so open her bra always remains present throughout. Very leggy with long boots. Thick make-up and bright lip stick with hair that's stringy and messy as if she had left her beautician's chair before getting it finished. Kane has the muscles and attitude, tattoos all over developing this tough-guy image. They're pretty much caricatures, archetypes of restless souls with volatile personalities who desire to harm and wreak havoc. I thought they pretty much walked off the movie Domino(..directed by Tony Scott)into their own. The film, to me, makes a devastatingly wrong decision with the twist ending. It seems unnecessary, but does fall in line with the overbearing message preached throughout the movie..we reap what we sow and karma's a bitch, with the past eventually catching up with you for the deeds you have done. Lots of reflection from Billy who seems overwhelmed with guilt for his actions while, interesting enough, Betty focuses her thoughts on the money he hid(..the loot stole from the bank)in the vault within a graveyard. She's a wild spirit, hard to control and manage. It's an ideal part for an actress capable enough to pull it off, but Miner just doesn't fit the model of a white trash beauty no matter how hard she tries(..and she does try hard). It's simply far easier for me to accept her as the victim than a psychotic killer, but I must, at the very least, commend her for giving it a shot. K.C. Bascombe really pulled a fast one on me because I truly felt this was set in the American Southwest..the rug pulled from under my feet finding that the actual shoot was in Argentina.