Great thriller in a Fargo type of way. Thornton is endearing, Paxtons character broad and well developed and Bridget Fonda turns in a scheming performance. The supporting cast are excellent and the plot and camerawork taut. A good score could have helped further.

This does not particularly look like a Sam Raimi film, which is quite a refreshing change - although obviously that crappy car of his shows up at some point or another.

Instead, he does a really good job of disguising the fact that this is a Sam Raimi film and lets the plot and (amazingly restrained) performances take the centre stage.

No stupid, OTT camera trickery with mad-dawg editing here.

This film is a masterpiece of direction. Raimi is in much more restrained mood than normal but perfectly drops twists and turns into the plot.
Unusually for a film that is built round a twisting plot it stands up well to repeated viewing.
You are left asking yourself at what point would you have done anything differently.