Straightheads (Closure)

Closure (2007)

  • 40% of critics liked it
    (20 reviews)

  • 34% of users liked it
    (4,512 ratings)

Director Dan Reed's revenge thriller Straightheads constitutes a long, penetrating meditation on the psychological fallout experienced by two attack victims. This cathartically ultraviolent picture opens on a deceptively placid note - with romance blossoming between Alice (Gillian Anderson) and… More

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Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Apr 27, 2007 Wide
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Derek Elley, Variety

    It's clear from the start this isn't a revenge drama that's going to wimp out at the end.

  • , Time Out

    The film is a shallow study of the â~intoxicating allure of violence', with a few gratuitous tit shots thrown in for good measure.

  • Ali Gray, TheShiznit.co.uk

    Straightheads is as shallow as a puddle and forgoes anything approaching realism in favour of OTT violence and needless gore.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...a low-key drama disguised as a revenge thriller...

  • Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

    About how some of us would be willing to sell our souls to protect our loved ones if we had to...

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Emil K


    Amateurish in every possible way and a huge mess of a movie. This is just one of those revenge-flicks that tries to raise some moral questions behind revenge, but ends up being as sadistic as the films rapists. If you want to see rifle penetrating into a man, then this is your cup of… More

  • Lady D


    This film starts well and Danny Dyer does tend to play Danny Dyer in most of his films, it's the pairing with Gillian Anderson that makes this one a little different. Good plot to the story, violent and brutal - following the craze of vigilante movies over the last few years.… More

  • Mason W


    Gillian Anderson & Danny Dyer star in Closure (aka Straightheads). A single successful meets a security alarm professional and they both are attracted to one another. After leaving a party out of town the night unravels to be horrible and then the view...an eye for an eye becomes… More

  • Jason S


    While there is some interesting character changes in the flick the rest of the movie is crappy. A little too brutal. Mostly just boring. Not recommended.

  • Luke B


    Goes for a more literal depiction of revenge as opposed to something deep or meaningful. Anderson and Dyer are both excellent but their characters are shoddy at best. There's a role reversal but Anderson's comes from out of nowhere as she is affected by somebody trying to… More

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