Nonureva Really Surprised!

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

fraguert This great movie which I first saw in the early 90's was recorded in Red Rock, which is 110 km north-east of Thunder Bay, or 1300 km north- west of Toronto. Red Rock is located at the very northern tip of Lake Superior, in Nipigon Bay in Ontario. I found this movie extremely well made with it's story including sweat-lodges spiritual visions, graphic vengeful violence set far away in a country of forests and lakes, between Lake Superior and Nipigon Lake obviously, in other words far enough for someone to skin somebody alive where nobody will hear him scream... Arthur not only embodies Peter Maguire's anger but the spirit of the natives of that part of the world and their frustration at white people logging enterprises that destroy the forest and encroach on their land. This movie is not for the faint of heart. When Arthur disappears under water at the end of the movie you know he didn't die drowning because you see his medallion at the neck of the cute little Indian girl Paulie afterward... A definite must-see for those who are nature lovers like me.

FilmSocietyMtl Like most Canadians, I tend to shy away from viewing Canadian-made movies, especially if they deal with First People's issues. ("Oh no! Not another one of those".) But CLEARCUT came highly recommended by a friend who is really into intensely horrific stories.It starts off looking like something we've all seen before with a band of Native North Americans squaring off against the "cruel white logging company". It then takes a neat turn about twenty minutes in when our main protagonist sits in on a sauna session-ritual with some Native elders in a teepee. It is his bloody fever dream within the dark steamy enclosure that begins to set the tone for the rest of the film. And what a film! Righteous "psycho" Native, Arthur (effectively played by Graham Greene) kidnaps our main hero who is a lawyer representing the protesters along with the nasty head of the logging company. Arthur then forces the two on a grueling journey through the forests with the sole aim of vengefully torturing them into seeing things from the native perspective. Relentlessly paced, full of twists and turns and its share of bloody gore, the film pulls no punches.It is smartly adapted by screenwriter Rob Forsyth, nicely shot by Francois Protat and well acted by Ron Lea with moody music by Shane Harvey. Although purely a dramatic work, it plays out like an old Indian legend and a sick stalker flick. Let me finally state that you don't have to be into Native issues to like this film. It works on many levels and is simply a really excellent entertaining movie!

BigLaxFan94 This film was worth a 7 to me because I loved how Arthur threw his weight around with Peter and Bud. Arthur only behaved that way with them because he needed to teach a very valuable lesson on how nature can never be tampered with. Obviously Bud and Peter never saw it that way nor did they see things from the Native perspective the way Arthur did. Since Bud never cared one way or another what happened to the trees because he was the papermill manager. He only cared about profiting from those trees so he needed them to be cut down. Peter's problem was that he was trying to take both sides of the issue to try and please Arthur and Bud. Since Peter was a lawyer it was his intuition to see things from all sides. Although the Natives lost the court case, Peter however did try and smooth things out and ease the tension for everyone involved and for that, I give him credit. But it was from Arthur's viewpoint that makes this film so cool. The important lesson needed to be taught to the other 2 men. Since Arthur rightfully committed those acts of violence towards Bud, Peter and those police officers because that was really the only way the situation was to be handled. If Arthur was just a regular human, he may have put up a fight but I don't think he would have gotten away with the things he did. He just would have been arrested and put away as "just another Indian who's only place is in jail". Ironically enough, Bud and Peter were arrested by police at the end of the film. Wow, what wrong have they done to society?? LOL The 2 men felt like THEY were the victims of the whole ordeal, not Arthur! LOL Well............ anyways............ thanks for allowing me the time to review on this film as well. Take care. ;)

ozman Given the opening scene of "something" coming up out of the depths of a lake and the ending in the water (and the seemingly supernatural powers of the Indian), it seems pretty clear that the Graham Greene character is meant to be some sort of avenging spirit or demon, not a human being.