Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

OJT Choice is like your average crime TV-flick, where the storyline and acting is quite convoluted and easy-made. Dennis Hopper though is good, though struggling with a rather bad script. Especially where he talked to himself, or imagines what might happen, or where he remembers his daughter speaking. Really amateurishly made.There's nothing wrong with the plot, but more about the way the idea is put to life. A great director would have made something out if this. Rather unlikely dialog, which reminds me of the "Murder she wrote" TV-series, which is not due to bad actors, but direction and manuscript. The man behind both is a man of obviously Swedish heritage, John Sjogren, which also is a co-producer of this. I can see his behind both better and worse productions than this.The set is sometimes laughable, like the cantina, and the toilet, which is for both men and women. Even the police is suspicious in this movie. To bad to see great actors like Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen sinking into some deep sheiss like this.Stay away, unless you are out for a bad flick with a couple of good laughs, without this really being a comedy even being a bad movie, it kept me interested. That's worth something.

jsnamer70 i have seen every hopper film and every madsen film and wish there were more films with hopper and madsen together. Choke is a tiny inde film with these two great actors. I like this film more than most madsen hopper films because madsen and hopper are really in the entire film not just a minute or two here and there. A lot of low budget films that put hopper and or madsen's names above the title end up really being about some other actors and madsen and hopper are really only on the screen for 5 minutes. In the case of this film "Choke" however, Hopper and madsen are almost always on the screen working their magic and in my opinion, delivering 90 plus minutes of the stuff i watch hopper and madsen films for? there is also an extremely cool 1970 dodge super bee that gets into a decent police chase and catches more air than the general lee catches in most dukes of hazzard episodes. for that old school car jump alone i should give this film 10 out of 10 but... i'm gonna leave room in case they make choke part two somehow some day? i recommend this picture.

sleeper100 I just can't imagine any possible reasons why Madsen and Hopper wanted to be in this movie after reading the script. They got blackmailed maybe? Or are they that badly out of money? The main problem with the movie is that it's boring. The conversations between Madsen's and Hopper's character are pointless, just like the bored chatting between two buddies while drinking beer on a saturday night. You never feel for any of the characters (although Madsen's psycho killer is very likeable, comparing to the other characters). Hopper always was a good actor, and Madsen does a fine job as the serial killer, otherwise the acting is almost laughable. There are about three scenes in the whole movie where something is actually happening, each of them last about three minutes. Although the "talking and thinking about murder and the nature of murderers" scenes would have been interesting, if they were scenes in a book. The whole concept would've been interesting for a novel, but a movie just can't bare with a story with that much inner thinking and so little action.

tringwood Hopper has never been worse as if he felt as this movie is worthy of only a grade B performance and he delivers a rather good one. Outside of Madsen and Hopper the acting is horrid; you've seen better at your local high school. The sound and at times the editing and camera shots are low end of B-movies. The scene with the peeping tom is of movies greatest gratuitous nudity scenes I've ever seen (it doesn't even come close to fitting in the movie). The script was probably a great 10-page outline, but when it comes out to a full-length movie there are more holes in it then the dead bodies Madsen left behind. I do have to say Hopper dressed in a nice suit driving the Hummer had me laughing out loud, but I don't think that was the intent. Yes there is a little style, and Hopper can always draw my interest. However the interesting plot concept never pays off and you are left wondering why you wasted your time watching this.