Panther pislA wrote:
Entertaining movie - I especially loved the "Texasy-ness" of everyone's speech patterns and mannerisms (Texas was indeed the Star of this one, no pun intended), but it was not on the same 4-star level of "No Country For Old Men', which was an utter epic masterpiece of the same tumbleweed caper genre.
Plausibility takes a very large backseat in this movie, which you can easily believe was written by an actor, and we are asked to suspend a whole lot of disbelief, as the whole "plan" of robbing many branches of the same bank, and the way it is carried out really lacks sufficient clarity to be believed.
The ending is also as non-plausible as anything else, as, in the modern era, I fail to see how a retired cop can't have certain of his correct conclusions (i.e. "I know you did it") come to fruition, even if there are political factors involved.
Bridges is good again, but I find myself hungering for him to play a character who does not speak out of the side of his mouth again. It's been a while. He lumbers around and is entertaining enough, even if he is still stuck playing Rooster Cogburn.
Chris pine and Ben Foster shine as the heisting brothers - two modern bovine-less cowpokes rambling around the Lone Star State pulling off a caper that a 3rd grader could figure out, availing themselves to evidence-burying heavy equipment and burner cars to the point where it seems as if they have a never-ending supply of such manifestations of deuces ex machina.
Kevin Rankin, from Justified and Breaking Bad fame, pops in as their sleazy attorney, but I found my self wishing he had more screen time.
All in all, the movie length, at about 1:40, was perfect, but the plot still seemed juvenile and rushed.
Again, The State is the Star, and the individual performances shine, but the story is lacking.
Good enough for 3 of 4 stars, but quite far away from a fourth.
It had a good feel to it, but it failed to make what was supposed to be its larger point. The old man saying they robbed the bank that has been robbing me for years. The waitress refusing to give up her tip money to the police. The cops are supposed to be the bad guys who do the bidding of the rich against the poor-- except when the brother starts killing people with a sniper's rifle in a standoff.
Seemed pretty unnecessary. That Chris Pine got away with it, was supposed to be part of the bigger message, but it was brushed over: the capitalist will sell you the rope that we will use to hang him.
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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?The Missing Link wrote:
For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.
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