Texas Killing Fields (2011)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 28
Texas Killing Fields is a competent boilerplate crime thriller, brewing up characters and plots used in better films.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 10
Texas Killing Fields is a competent boilerplate crime thriller, brewing up characters and plots used in better films.
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Inspired by the string of real-life unsolved murders in a small Texan town, this tense and haunting thriller follows a local homicide detective (Sam Worthington), and his partner, a transplanted cop from New York City (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his female victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh dubbed The Killing Fields. The killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always
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Cast
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Sam Worthington
Detective Souder, Mike ... -
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Brian Heigh, Detective ... -
Jessica Chastain
Pam Stall -
Chloe Moretz
Anne, Little Ann Sliger... -
Jason Clarke
Rule -
Stephen Graham
Rhino -
Deneen Tyler
Lady Worm -
Corie Berkemeyer
Shauna Kittredge -
Trenton Perez
White Kid -
Maureen Brennan
Mrs. Kittredge -
Tony Bentley
Captain Bender -
Becky Fly
Neighbor -
Samantha Beaulieu
Sheila -
Annabeth Gish
Gwen Heigh -
Kelvin Payton
Congregation 1 -
Sheryl Lee
Lucie Sliger -
Ron Flagge
Congregation 2 -
Jon Eyez
Levon -
Joseph Meissner
Uniformed Cop -
Russell M. Haeuser
Foreman -
Joe Chrest
Salter -
Thomas Druilhet
Uniformed Officer 1 -
Tatelyn Ione Galentine
Jump Rope Girl -
Donna DuPlantier
Riba -
Jade Radford
Shelter Girl 1 -
Cassidy Smith
Shelter Girl 2 -
Leanne Cochran
Liala, Lila -
Leah Elizabeth Sanchez
Lila's Daughter -
Jennifer Kober
911 Operator -
Ryan Reinike
911 Supervisor -
Wayne Ferrara
Canine Officer -
Lyle Brocato
Jim -
Kerry Cahill
Carla Romer -
Kirk Bovill
Boyfriend -
Jason Mitchell
7-Eleven Cashier -
Lenore Banks
Haddie -
Coryn Cunningham
Elizabeth Heigh -
Sean Cunningham
Billy Heigh -
Patrick Seth Cunningham
Tim Heigh -
Brayden Turner-Iuso
Young Boy -
Anastasia Boissier
Girl at Vigil -
Richard "Doc" Whitney
Constable Rankin -
Brian Duffy
Flannel Shirt Poacher -
Tom Proctor
Poacher 2 -
Brittney Diez
Store Clerk -
Mark Adam
Surveillance Detective ... -
John A. Stassi
Surveillance Detective ... -
Jim Chimento
Radio Operator -
David Presley
Medic -
James Hebert
Eugene -
John Neisler
DPS Officer
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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (29) | DVD (2)
The characters will be familiar to fans of police procedural shows and TV movies.
Top CriticThe story simply doesn't stand up, with its combination of well-worn plot elements and confusing red herrings -- or maybe they're just details that don't add up.
[A] southern-fried rehash of David Fincher's Seven.
Scenes do not always necessarily follow one another. I was sometimes unclear who some of the characters were.
The only notable element of this police procedural is that director Ami Canaan Mann, daughter of filmmaker Michael Mann ("Heat," "Collateral"), who produced here, appreciates dad's esthetic but can't replicate it.
Long on style and short on coherent storytelling...
I know many people don't like Sam Worthington and I'm one of them. Worthington is trying to prove that he's not the one-dimensional actor that we all think he is.
depressing characters slogging through a depressing story for a depressing movie
Texas Killing Fields is just another dull, morally mixed-up serial-killer movie.
"Texas Killing Fields" is nothing more than an average crime thriller with some better-than-average suspense. Paul Chambers, CNN.
Don Ferrarone's script could have used one more revision for sequential flow, character depth and back-story clarity. But there's promise for Ms. Mann.
A pretty routine police procedural with...a little bit of regional flavor.
works sporadically, but never consistently, and ends up feeling much lighter and more forgettable than its "inspired by true events" tagline would seem to merit
Mann Jr shows plenty of promise in a film that doesn't tarnish the family name. But hindered by niggling flaws, it hardly revolutionises an over-saturated genre.
Despite the jumbled plot and structural problems, the shady characters and gritty settings compensate.
A procedural without structure. It's a mood piece with no definable mood. It's a thriller without clear villains or even threats.
Post-Silence of the Lambs and Se7en, there's no reason for the level of suspense to be commensurate with a first season episode of C.S.I. New York.
Nothing in this film sets your nerves a-tingling.
Merely an elongated version of any current crime show on television
Reduces the police procedural to its bare essentials.
Just uses a spooky atmosphere and fractured style to disguise the fact that it's actually covering quite familiar territory.
The police intelligence couldn't be more basic--oh, really, do you think those sleazy dudes changed the license plate on their car?
Audience Reviews for Texas Killing Fields
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- Detective Heigh: Which one of you found the hand?
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- Mike Souder: If she is in the fields, she is as good as gone.
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Not so good.... I really wanted to like this movie. It has good actors, and the chance of a great storyline. Unfortunately, that did not help this movie in the least. When it comes to this kind of cop film, you need direction, some one that can tell the story at a good pace, connect all the dots, get you engrossed in the mood of the film, make you sit and wait for more clues and so on, but this film lacks all of that. At the end your lost in the story, characters are totally uninteresting and you know when you are done with the movie that you could have spend your time differently. Not recommended!
Souder, a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh, track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields'. Though the swampland crime scenes are outside their jurisdiction, Detective Heigh is unable to turn his back on solving the gruesome murders. Despite his partner's warnings, he sets out to investigate the crimes. Before long, the killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When familiar local girl Anne goes missing, the detectives find themselves racing against time to catch the killer and save the young girl's life.