No in depth review.

If you like a snappy crime thriller, see this movie.

It's like Reservoir Dogs, mostly in that you wish there were more of it.

Like RD, it's so tasty, yet so brief, that you're left longing for more footage.

Oh no. I'm only at half my character count.

Remember Mr. Blonde? What's up with him? Give us a few more minutes with Mr. Blonde. Oh wait--he's dead?

What happened to Mr. Blue?

Why can't I have more of these guys?

That's what Yuma is like.

Dismiss any review that calls it slow.

The setup is meticulous and the payoff is brutal.

As the credits roll, for once, in an ocean of overlong movies, you'll be wishing Yuma had been bloated.

It isn't. It's trimmed so lean that you'll almost feel like you didn't get a full serving.

That's a compliment.

I gave the film 8/10 instead of 10/10. I deducted 2 points because I have a problem with the bathroom arrangement.

Send people out and around to the motel? What? Does Yelp not exist in 1974?

While stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop, a traveling salesman is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.

It reminded me a little of Natural Born Killers, and From Dusk til Dawn. In that it's slightly offbeat, filmed in a very stylised manner, and every single person in the film carries out their role with skill and panache.

It's one of those crazy films where you simply don't know what's going to happen next, and when it does, you think nothing more crazy can happen, then it does!

It's never slow or dull, it's never silly, it's just excellent bloody adventure with tons of twist. I loved it and gave it a 7.

... and i mean this in a far more positive way than it sounds!

A slow-burning B-movie with a single-setting scenario and American Rust atmosphere, Yuma County introduces lovably one-dimensional characters (again I mean well, they are so by design) - right until the plot decides to have a lil bit of macabre fun and put them in the most complex, unresolvable, dilemmatic (most often life or death) situations. The second half of the movie recompenses for the viewer's patience with the first: it is dark and hilarious and sad and unnerving, and more; there's twists and turns worthy of a James Patterson novel, and soon enough it all escalates faster than you can say -escalation-...

In short: One can see where the good ratings throughout come from. This is an enjoyable little gem of a movie that also doesn't overstay its welcome. Technically and acting-wise it does a fine enough job as well.