I give Pressure, a low-budget indie with no big-name cast members, 10 stars out of 10 because it is does exactly what it sets out to do -- keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time. It's a Thriller with a capital T. The pace is relentless, the plot twists keep coming, the music pounds. Shoot outs? Oh yeah.

Two medical students on their way home through Oregon stop at a rural roadhouse to take a nature call. The bar is packed with dancing cheerleaders (there's a cheerleader convention nearby), so why not stay for "just one beer." Before long, there's an altercation in the parking lot, someone gets shot and our boys are on the run in their Mustang, cops in hot pursuit. The stakes keep going up as more and more people get shot. There's even some black humor.

This movie is pure muscle and bone. No fat. There's a quiet interlude when the boys run across a survivalist living in a cabin in the woods, but that's about it. It is almost reckless how tautly edited this movie is. Shot for shot, the climax on a remote bridge is so well shot it ought to be shown in film school.

Plausibility? Not so much. It is full of "It just so happens that..." moments. So what?

For a pure adrenaline rush, you can't beat Pressure.