Snitch(2013)- User Reviews

I expected one of those non-stop action movies, you know, car crashes and gratuitous violence every ten minutes or so. I was amazed that there's a real story, and some real acting here. Duane Johson is superb. The father-son relationship is what this flick is all about. Susan Sarandon does the usual Hollywood hatchet job on the stereotypical conservative cold-hearted opportunistic prosecutors who only care about getting re-elected, the kind of evil (i.e. Republican) politician she and her fellow liberals love to parody. But her character does point out a major problem with the "drug war," that things like mandatory sentences, long-term no-parole prison time, and "three strikes and you're out" penalties are really just ploys, part of the smokescreen the politicians use to rack up convictions so they can get re-elected on their "law and order" record, no matter what their party affiliation is. Members of Congress and state legislators, not just prosecutors, they're all playing the system against us. There's a lot of substance in this movie that parents and kids could talk about. And who knows, the parents might even learng something........:)