Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

super marauder Okay, okay! I can clearly see from the other reviewers this one is a mixed bag. Either love it it or hate it, well that's fine. That's okay because it deals with a touchy subject.Set aside the politics for a moment, the movie is about a teenage girl who wants an abortion because she feels the baby is evil. But her father wants to protect the baby at all costs.Ron Perlman is excellent as usual playing the tragic hero who knows it's there is going to be bloodshed. He knows it's going to get ugly and he's not happy about it, but he feels it has to be done. Catlin Wachs is great playing the victim. Bill Dow and the rest of the cast is great too.I feel the both sides of the issue is being served. But it's Ron Perlman's character that really sells me on this. He is a father who loves his kids and do whatever it takes to protect them. I feel if you love this movie or hate this movie you can't hate Ron.John Carpenter has never been above pushing people's buttons, just look at 'They Live'. He said of this "it's just a monster movie", and Cody Carpenter's score captures the mood.I'm not trying to mock other people when I say this one is not for someone with a closed mind. If you feel strongly one way or the other about abortion, I suggest you avoid this one. I myself enjoyed this not because I am pro-life or pro choice. I enjoyed it because all of the characters most notably Ron and Catlin because they were real people.

merklekranz Not really very original, since clearly elements of both "Assault on Precinct 13" and "The Thing" are rather obvious. In addition, lots of plot holes get in the way. The effects are alright, but there are some annoying flaws, the most glaring being why no one has a cell phone to call police, after the phone lines are cut? Ron Perlman is in his comfort zone, as the psycho pro-life father, assaulting the abortion clinic where his daughter is being attended to by the rather naive staff. Another weak point in the script is why Perlman continues to torture the doctor, when his daughter is screaming at the top of her lungs just down the hall? "Pro Life" has lots of screaming, but not much meaning. - MERK

MARIO GAUCI The second John Carpenter episode in the series is pretty good if clearly a lesser achievement than his previous one, CIGARETTE BURNS (2005), which had been one of the very best. Still, for all the genre felicities and competent acting (especially mismatched father Ron Perlman and daughter Caitlin Wachs) on display here, the overall impression remains that of being a disparate collage of earlier and much superior movies like ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968; the demon impregnating a human being), LEGEND (1985; the look of the demon is virtually identical to Tim Curry's Darkness), as well as Carpenter's own ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976; the besieged institution i.e. abortion clinic) and THE THING (1982; the hybrid look of the monster infant). As with most contemporary horror fare, there is much unnecessary splatter/gore effects but these strike one as ludicrous (such as when a brain is blown off merely from a hand-gun bullet)! At least, Carpenter's son Cody provides an effectively subtle, piano-led score a' la his father's classic theme for HALLOWEEN (1978).

huh_oh_i_c MUCHO SPOILERSReading the comments I am reminded what an utterly weird country the USA is. The most socially backward and most technically advanced of all the rich countries, Only in such a F'ed up place, this TV movie could be viewed as controversial.In general, the anti-abortion crowd gets a bad deal here, and rightly so. By calling it Pro-Life, and then paint the pro-lifers in a one dimensional gun toting and gun-using kinda way, Carpenter made a firm and sardonic statement against those who think that they have a God given right to kill doctors who work in abortion clinics. Aside from the fact that it has been scientifically, peer-reviewed proved, that abortion is responsible for the drop in the crime-rate, abortion continues to be not murder, even the USA!! According to the USA supreme court, it STILL is legal, but yes, we can wonder for how long.But the ultimate joke on the bible-thumping killers is played when the the socallled voice of God that has been speaking to the fanatic is actually Satan and the baby is some sort of spider-monster. The message is as clear as it is crude: anti-abortionists are instruments of the DEVIL masquerading as christians ...