Hell or High Water (2016)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham
Synopsis:
Mid Texas, and two brothers perform a string of small-town bank robberies to stop the bank foreclosing on the mortgage for their ranch. Meanwhile a pair of Rangers waits for them to make their next move.
Review:
More than a shadow of the Coen brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit) hangs over the conception, music and characterisations of this deftly written crime drama for our times, which more than confirms Mackenzie's place as one of the British directorial talents of the moment (along with the McDonaghs and Glazer). What half a century ago might have been a Bonnie and Clyde tale of the poor revenging themselves on the banks, has become a more complex set of ethical accommodations: the customer who draws on the robbers to defend law and order, the bank itself complicit in establishing a profitable Trust, the small people who get killed when careful planning inevitably makes way for improvisation, in a word the human element. Bridges reprises his turn as a grizzled old-timer, and the scenes of sparring with his Indian sidekick have a poignancy that reaches back a hundred and fifty years.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham
Synopsis:
Mid Texas, and two brothers perform a string of small-town bank robberies to stop the bank foreclosing on the mortgage for their ranch. Meanwhile a pair of Rangers waits for them to make their next move.
Review:
More than a shadow of the Coen brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit) hangs over the conception, music and characterisations of this deftly written crime drama for our times, which more than confirms Mackenzie's place as one of the British directorial talents of the moment (along with the McDonaghs and Glazer). What half a century ago might have been a Bonnie and Clyde tale of the poor revenging themselves on the banks, has become a more complex set of ethical accommodations: the customer who draws on the robbers to defend law and order, the bank itself complicit in establishing a profitable Trust, the small people who get killed when careful planning inevitably makes way for improvisation, in a word the human element. Bridges reprises his turn as a grizzled old-timer, and the scenes of sparring with his Indian sidekick have a poignancy that reaches back a hundred and fifty years.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham
Synopsis:
Mid Texas, and two brothers perform a string of small-town bank robberies to stop the bank foreclosing on the mortgage for their ranch. Meanwhile a pair of Rangers waits for them to make their next move.
Review:
More than a shadow of the Coen brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit) hangs over the conception, music and characterisations of this deftly written crime drama for our times, which more than confirms Mackenzie's place as one of the British directorial talents of the moment (along with the McDonaghs and Glazer). What half a century ago might have been a Bonnie and Clyde tale of the poor revenging themselves on the banks, has become a more complex set of ethical accommodations: the customer who draws on the robbers to defend law and order, the bank itself complicit in establishing a profitable Trust, the small people who get killed when careful planning inevitably makes way for improvisation, in a word the human element. Bridges reprises his turn as a grizzled old-timer, and the scenes of sparring with his Indian sidekick have a poignancy that reaches back a hundred and fifty years.