Cold in July (2014)
Country: US/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Jim Mickle
Cast: Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Vinessa Shaw
Synopsis:
A Texas picture framer surprises and shoots a burglar, whereupon the local county sheriff congratulates him on shooting a notorious criminal who had it coming. However, when the lad's father arrives on the scene, a classic 'Cape Fear' scenario suddenly takes a left turn into something more conspiratorial.
Review:
Pretty good hard-nosed thriller with vaguely likeable characters (cf. Killing Them Softly, which didn't). The sub-plot about snuff pornography has been done before, and there is something of Taxi Driver about the final showdown, but it wrong-foots us often enough to sustain interest, provided, that is, we swallow the essential premise that a family businessman reduced to jelly from 'off-ing' an intruder might turn vigilante on the flip of a dime. Johnson enjoys himself as a Houston private dick turned pig farmer, in possibly his finest big screen outing.
Country: US/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Jim Mickle
Cast: Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Vinessa Shaw
Synopsis:
A Texas picture framer surprises and shoots a burglar, whereupon the local county sheriff congratulates him on shooting a notorious criminal who had it coming. However, when the lad's father arrives on the scene, a classic 'Cape Fear' scenario suddenly takes a left turn into something more conspiratorial.
Review:
Pretty good hard-nosed thriller with vaguely likeable characters (cf. Killing Them Softly, which didn't). The sub-plot about snuff pornography has been done before, and there is something of Taxi Driver about the final showdown, but it wrong-foots us often enough to sustain interest, provided, that is, we swallow the essential premise that a family businessman reduced to jelly from 'off-ing' an intruder might turn vigilante on the flip of a dime. Johnson enjoys himself as a Houston private dick turned pig farmer, in possibly his finest big screen outing.
Country: US/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Jim Mickle
Cast: Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Vinessa Shaw
Synopsis:
A Texas picture framer surprises and shoots a burglar, whereupon the local county sheriff congratulates him on shooting a notorious criminal who had it coming. However, when the lad's father arrives on the scene, a classic 'Cape Fear' scenario suddenly takes a left turn into something more conspiratorial.
Review:
Pretty good hard-nosed thriller with vaguely likeable characters (cf. Killing Them Softly, which didn't). The sub-plot about snuff pornography has been done before, and there is something of Taxi Driver about the final showdown, but it wrong-foots us often enough to sustain interest, provided, that is, we swallow the essential premise that a family businessman reduced to jelly from 'off-ing' an intruder might turn vigilante on the flip of a dime. Johnson enjoys himself as a Houston private dick turned pig farmer, in possibly his finest big screen outing.