(preface- I'm a regular person, not a publicist or someone hired by a PR firm to write embellishing false reviews) .... (possible spoiler alert!!) .. I REALLY liked E.O.D. I thought this was going to be a typical revenge film just like 'Payback' but it was so much more. It was basically a suspenseful ride from start to finish about Mel's daughter being gunned down, and his plan to find her killers. throughout the film the story is well-done and paced, never leaves the viewer hanging, bored and out of the loop. It soon leads into an interesting path about his daughter's death being connected to the bs shenanigans of huge corporations who service the Government and will do anything no matter how evil, to protect their interests, and keep the contracts alive and the millions of dollars pouring in. As a viewer of this film, I asked myself numerous times, can this really happen? Would a gov't-funded corporation try to kill people who knew of their evil ways ?

THIS WAS A FANTASTIC MOVIE! MEL GIBSON WAS HIS BEST YET. DONT MISS THIS ONE.

Totally out of this world

Please DO not waste your time or money on this movie. I had to keep telling myself it will get better, it NEVER did. The group of people I went with also felt the exact same way. The movie is very slow and has nothing that keeps your interested in the least bit. During the movie I counted a total of five people leave the theater and not come back. You know its a bad movie if I watch in jealousy to see if the people who left ever come back, which they didn't. PLEASE take my word for it and do NOT see this movie. I am usually a Mel Gibson fan but this movie is a real bust and I want my money back.

I was expecting a straight-forward revenge quest by a cop father robbed of his daughter but that isn't quite what this movie really is. Gibson is incredibly understated in this film (to his credit) which may bore some moviegoers who are more interested in the "Gimme back my son!" Gibson from Ransom. The death of his daughter is brutal with little to no cue to the audience (the trailer makes it plain that her death is the impetus of the film); very abrupt. What follows are a myriad of quiet character studies with some flashbacks but not much in the way of police procedure. Characters get introduced as Craven (Gibson) goes through his daughter's cellphone contacts. The director seems to have made a conscious decision to not make it simple for the audience to determine who is "bad" and who is "good" with the usual Hollywood flair of film scoring for effect. What threw me the most was the conspiracy angle involving shadowy government men. Ray Winstone steals the show as one of these men.