Synopsis
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.
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Cast
- Michael MadsenDoe
- Harold PerrineauDixon
- Danny TrejoJimmy
- Kevin GageHank
- Lew TempleLonnie
- Lindsey AxelssonStarr
- Jonathan SacharO'Brien
- Patrick DurhamShaffer
- Talan TorrieroBilly
- Jake BuseyGreene
Recommendations
- 30
The New York Times
A cheapie hostage drama with a lot more swagger than substance, The Killing Jar strains to wring tension from a tired premise and an airless script. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Benson is so terrible her close-up line readings feel as inconsequential as the insert shots, and Madsen, it must be said, finally looks exasperated with playing grumbly psychos. At times he looks as helpless as his hostages. - 20
Time Out
Mark Young’s bargain-basement thriller is as witless as the captor’s motive; to paraphrase another well-dressed Madsen psycho, this little doggie barks, but it has no bite. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
A cliched, talky variation on the 1936 Bogie classic "The Petrified Forest," with scant dramatic tension but gallons of spilled blood on the menu. - 10
Variety
A spectacularly boring chamber thriller. - 0
Village Voice
The film has no pulse and feels interminable, with its stilted dialogue, static staging, and usually fine actors who are horrendous here--Amber Benson is all moist-eyed empathy as the waitress while Madsen is laughably bad.
