Review of Rage

First half, set in a gritty, grubby northern Mexican town, is pretty good. The party scenes with the imported from TJ hookers and the construction crew have a wild realism and the scene with the rabidly dying worker, tied up and foaming at the mouth, has a terrifying realism. But in the second half things start to become less interesting as we are subjected to Glenn Ford's constant lugubriousness about his dead wife and child, which gets kind of boring, and the film cannot make up its mind whether to be a love story with Ford and Stella Stevens' warm hearted floozie (by far the best character in the film and the always under rated Stevens plays her to perfection) or a buddy picture with Ford and warm hearted laborer David Reynoso and so becomes less than compelling versions of both. Give it a C plus.

PS...Why is it that in rabies movies only the guys get bit? Guess the sight of a chick foaming at the mouth is a turnoff.