EarDelightBase Waste of Money.

ThiefHott Too much of everything

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

SteveResin Tedious, by-the-numbers thriller that sees Michael Douglas play an entitled multi-millionaire businessman out in the desert paying off the locals so he can fill his trophy cabinet and bag himself a Longhorn. Of course, this being Hollywood he hires the "BEST TRACKER IN THE STATE!" even though the guy looks half asleep from the word go and barely out of short trousers. Jeremy Irvine is lacking personality and it's hard to care for his character and the predicament he finds himself in.The predicament itself is mildly interesting but spoiled by absurd moments. Douglas accidentally shoots some old eccentric living out in the desert and frames Irvine for it, making him wander the wasteland until he hopefully dehydrates or burns into a crisp. But our personality free but plucky hero has other plans! Which seem to involve heading to the eccentric's home, which hilariously in inside an abandoned mine but furnished with vinyl records and old school dynamite, and just... hide there. Douglas finds him and the chase is on again, culminating in Irvine following some lame Treasure Island style map to uncover a chest buried by the eccentric, which contains water and finally a weapon. Unbelievably, the weapon turns out to be an old school slingshot with marbles for ammunition! And in true Biblical style David slays Goliath. Except he can't even do that right and instead ties him up and takes him back to the local police station.More thrilling twists and turns unravel as Douglas escapes through the toilet window into a waiting helicopter (he's a millionaire, they have 'copters waiting at the drop of a hat) and the chase is on again. The end is just dreadful and there's not much point recapping it here because like a Longhorn with a good snout you'll see it coming from a mile away.The only thing this movie has going for it is the scenery, the story is wafer thin and stretched to fill 90 minutes when 30 would have sufficed, Irvine is like a plank of wood and Douglas' false teeth were too distracting. Avoid.

ARTaylor I read the book Deathwatch by Robb White back in middle school. I always thought it was a good story that deserved a movie. It wasn't until I saw the trailer for this that I learned this was actually the second adaptation of the book.Beyond the Reach follows Ben, a down-on-his-luck young man who wants to go to college with his girlfriend but can't afford it. He is hired by ruthless businessman Madec who weaseled his way into a bighorn hunting permit. When Madec accidentally shoots a drifter he attempts to cover it up and begins hunting Ben through the desert.The movie is largely faithful to the book. Of course, the book focuses on the inner dialogue of Ben as he struggles to stay alive which is hard to translate to film. The movie at least maintains the psychological part of the story with a few brief moments of "action," wisely keeping it a thriller.Michael Douglas does a terrific job playing the villain. There isn't really much for him to do in the story but he makes every moment he's in much more interesting. Jeremy Irvine also does a great job given that he spends most of the time alone in the desert running around.My only real problem is the ending. (Only paragraph with SPOILERS) The book ends with Ben taking Madec back to town and both are arrested. Both are questioned and the authorities believe Madec's story since Ben's sounds crazier. But then they examine the dead body and find Ben's story is true. The movie tacks on a jail escape scene, that makes little sense, and a scene with Madec breaking into Ben's girlfriend's home ending in a big shootout. The whole movie before then was a psychological thriller and this scene goes against that. Keeping the original ending would have maintained the battle of wits between these two characters.For the most part, I enjoyed the movie. I liked how the book was adapted. I just wish it ended about five minutes earlier than it did.

kosmasp Sometimes something is not out of reach. Sometimes you wonder how it's possible for someone not to be able to hit something when earlier in the movie that didn't seem to be a problem. And still while the movie tries to break predictability towards the end (which I kind of would have dug, going a different route), in the end it turns out it just used a different way to get to the result everyone should expect.Michael Douglas is mesmerizing even when "being" evil (if you can call it that), though it feels comical at times. Not in the best way possible. It's almost like a theater piece with two men having to survive against many odds ... does it work? Occasionally and there is tension and it is interesting to some degree ...

LeonLouisRicci Michael Douglas has been in His Share of Clunkers Over His Long and Varied Career. But Here He Literally Made This One, He was the "Money Man" Behind it and Helped its Appeal by Appearing in This Two Character Study that is Big on Scenery and Clichéd Stereotypical Characters that are of the Income Inequality Variety.This Isn't Awful, the Story Itself is Timeless Like the "Previously Underwater" Sprawling Environment. Of Course Douglas Playing a Soulless Sob Who Literally Takes a Pee on Nature. He Drives a Half-Million Dollar Car and "Sports" a Wonder Weapon to Shoot One of His Wall Trophies, a Mountain Ram.Things Go Sideways from the Start as He Hires Jeremy Irvine to be His Guide and Then Promptly Forces Him to Strip to His Undies (listening Girls) and the Chase is On. A Competent Time Filler with Enough Concern for Social and Ethical Issues and an Ending that Everyone Hates. You Can't Really Hate the Movie Because it is Well Done. It's Just Mediocre Movie Making that Has an Appeal but a Limited Appeal at Best.