Chris Pine, hungry to prove starship captaincy is not his only skill (it's not), is the handsome and smart one. It follows two thirty-something brothers on a campaign of small-time bank jobs across West Texas. In the picture's opening seconds, Scottish director David Mackenzie's camera drifts over a wall bearing a spray-painted op-ed: "Three tours in Iraq but no bailout for people like us." The 101 minutes that follow essentially comprise a feature-length Nebraska-era Bruce Springsteen song, their brilliance lying in the details.Įmbracing small heist-film cliches while cannily dodging big ones, Hell or High Water is a sort of present-day mashup of Bonnie and Clyde, No Country for Old Men, and Heat.
One way you know it's August at the multiplex is that the many unextraordinary virtues of the thoughtful crime drama Hell or High Water - a plot that kicks off in the first scene instead of the fourth or fifteenth "heroes" and "villains" equally deserving of our empathy, and who come into focus through behavior rather than dialogue a palpable sense of place basic A-leads-to-B-causing-C narrative competence - make it feel like the pinnacle of cinematic artistry. Ben Foster and Chris Pine in Hell or High Water.
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