Product Details

• Actors: Tom Blair, Kristi Hager, Robert Ernst, Kate Dezina, Phillip R. Brown
• Directors: Jon Jost
• Writers: Jon Jost
• Producers: Carola B. Anderson, Henry S. Rosenthal
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: World Artists
• DVD Release Date: June 25, 2002
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005JXYQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,122 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Sure Fire" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Break-out performance by Robert "Bob" Nalwalker, March 10, 2003

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Jeff Nalwalker (Portland, Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sure Fire [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Jon Yost may have done it again. Bob Nalwalker is a fresh new actor that will be hard to ignore. His gritty performance as "the sheriff" will leave you breathless. Yost obviously uses Nalwalker as a touchpoint that beautifully ties this movie beginning to end. The humanity he brings to his role is a clever counterpoint to the ramblings of "Wes" played masterfully by Tom Blair. Rural life has never been depicted in such a real yet disturbing manner. Yost sets the viewer free and provides ample time to digest the poignant theme. Fade to black editing is as cutting-edge as it is primative.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars World Artists should be ashamed of themselves..., March 16, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Sure Fire (DVD)

This is absolutely the worst DVD I own. The actual film is quite good but for this release World Artists chose to transfer from a video source and the results are close to unwatchable. The image is dark and murky throughout and the poor quality is especially damaging during shots of what are supposed to be beautiful Utah landscapes. I cannot imagine Jon Jost would approve of this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fine, disturbing study of cultural decay, April 21, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Sure Fire (DVD)

This is a an excellent low-budget film about a controlling, possibly psychotic Utah businessman and his eventual meltdown and the way it affects his already tenuous relationship with his family.
Interesting in the way it portrays middle America as a place of extreme spiritual and emotional corrosion. Blair is very, very creepy in the lead.

Similar in many ways to Michael Haneke's films in that the focus is extremely narrow and the director's primary statement seems to be about cultural decay.

This is definitely not a film one would watch to be "entertained". But it is quite powerful.