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Though not 100% accurate, this movie is engrossing. To those who know nothing about what happened on Rudy Ridge, this film is a great place to start. It will wet your thirst. You'll want to learn more about the day the government overstepped their authority and gunned down an innocent family whose only crime was wanting to be left alone. After shooting Weaver's son in the back, government agents shot Randy and Kevin, a long-time family friend. As Randy and Kevin ran for cover inside of the cabin, another agent fired through the open cabin door, striking Vicky, Randy's wife, in the head, killing her.
Vicky Weaver wasn't the lunatic she was portrayed to be in this movie. Also, Randy Weaver is a short, non-threatening-type guy, nowhere near the size of Randy Quaid.
Important facts are lacking in this movie, evidence that proved the FBI wanted the entire Weaver family dead. The book Every Knee Shall Bow (from which this movie was based)explains that the telephone offered to Randy was a ploy to get him outside where a robotic shotgun mounted on the army tank awaited to blow him away, or anyone else who came to retrieve the telephone. The FBI also knew without a doubt that Vicky was dead, and that one of their own had killed her. The microphone bugs they'd placed beneath the cabin floor picked up all bits of conversation inside. Hollywood easily could have included these facts in the film, but instead they used that time to wrongly paint Vicky as slightly mad.
Hollywood also portrayed Weaver as a racist. He wasn't. He was and still is a separatist who wanted to live apart from other races. Though that attitude in itself may invoke anger in some people, it isn't a crime to think the way the Weavers did, and it's no reason for the government to hunt anyone down, much less kill them because of it.
Despite the inaccuracies, I loved this movie because it sparked me to learn more about the assault on the Weaver family. I hope it does the same for anyone who watches it.
The DVD has no extras, no special features or interviews. The only difference between it and the VHS is a sharper picture, and the entire movie is on one disc. With the exception of the bloodied Striker dragging his hind legs behind him after being shot, I noticed no added scenes.
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I would like to thank the seller for accomodating an issue with shipping and their prompt service. Now I will review the product.
Horribly written movie that went to great lengths to wrongly defame Randy Weaver. Randy Quaid should be ashamed of himself. Anyone who knows what it takes to become a Special Forces Green Beret knows that the way Quaid portrayed Weaver as a cowardly nutjob was basically a character assasination and far from the truth. There were also many other untruths and outright falsehoods in the movie which did not even parallel the book it was adapted from, a book which although seems at most times to take great pains to get to the facts, still engages in wronging Weavers character without base. I would not recommend this movie to anyone who thinks it might be a documantary or that it contains all the facts. In some cases it is factual, but you need to have researched the story in order to be discerning of the content. The movie does illustrate the Feds murder of Randys innocent wife and son. Just for that portion it is worth watching, however take the portrayal of the family as not accurate.
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An excellent documentation of how our government is out of control. You don't kill people because of their beliefs, at least not in America. Or do you ? Have we gotten that far away from the constitution ? Josie
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This extremely well done 2-part television mini-series ostensibly relates the true facts about the tragic incident that occurred in August of 1992 when Federal agents, armed with rifles, choppers and tanks, surrounded the Ruby Ridge, Idaho, cabin of White Supremacist Randy Weaver, who had resisted a Federal arrest warrant.
Following an 11-day stand-off that brought nationwide attention, both Weaver's wife and 14-year-old son were dead. Weaver, ultimately, surrendered, was tried on trumped-up murder and conspiracy charge and acquitted.
Roger Young directed the film, which stars Randy Quaid as Weaver, Laura Dern as his wife and Kristen Dunst as their oldest daughter. Also in the cast are Diane Ladd, Bob Gunton and Joe Don Baker.
The problem with this docudrama is that there is nobody in the story that you really want to root for. Yes, the Government abused their power in going after the Weavers with such deadly force. The deaths were certainly unnecessary; caused by some trigger-happy agents.
On the other hand, the Weavers were, indeed, White Supremacists who followed Nazi doctrines. It is terrible that their family was destroyed and one can certainly grieve for them, but didn't they bring what happened upon themselves?
© Michael B. Druxman
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This is a good movie, a little vague in some areas but overall well done.
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