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Critics Consensus: A riveting crime thriller full of emotional tension.
Critic Consensus: A riveting crime thriller full of emotional tension.
All Critics (70) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (7) | DVD (3)
A Simple Plan is lean, elegant, and emotionally complex - a marvel of backwoods classicism.
Perfect capers gone horribly, inexorably awry have always kept audiences squirming. But just when we think we've seen it all, Raimi offers a few new wrinkles.
Raimi takes the old story about dishonour among thieves and renders it fresh through the calm, cool, steady assurance of the telling.
As straightforward in narrative as it is gut-wrenching in effect, A Simple Plan is a sort of slow-motion skid down an icy blacktop- it's a movie you watch with a mounting sense of dread.
Both heartbreaking and chilling, this film explores ancient themes in a contemporary, painfully familiar way.
Sam Raimi, best known for wowing audiences with stylistic gymnastics and manic mayhem, directs this quietly desperate thriller with chilly restraint...
[Raimi] austerely rejects hyped-up camera tricks and jokey shock effects and creates living, complex characters whose fates we care about. The result is easily his finest film to date.
powerful, if pedestrian
It's been done before, and Raimi doesn't do it much differently or put his own stamp on it.
A great film, and a major leap forward in the career of Sam Raimi.
A pre-Spiderman Sam Raimi delivers a stunningly powerful film about the consequences of greed.
Tenso e trágico.
Powerful and intense, Sam Raimi's drama is a forgotten gem in the director's career. Boasting a strong script and very human characters from Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thorton and Bridget Fonda, there is very little reason for why this shouldn't be missed.
Super Reviewer
Raimi's best film. In the same line of "Fargo" not only in its snowy setting, but in the way it moves from a mundane and strange darkly comical feel to end up as an incredibly violent and menacing study of greed. Destiny never ceases to collect victims.
Chilling and entertaining, A Simple Plan is a great screenplay. If you like of Fargo, you must see this.
Now, I know I was watching a fiction, but the movie had nothing worth discounting the numerable idiocies it had. The instability in characters' morality was the most annoying factor. Just to cite one [SPOILER ALERT]: The protagonist doesn't mind smothering an oldie (seemed normal and innocent), shooting off a couple, but has a soft spot for the sheriff!!! I appreciate the simplicity of the storyline and thank the director for making something comprehensible for me, but I wish I were a grateful..... But I'm sure that my rating or writing doesn't make no difference to him. Or to anyone for that matter except myself.
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