Watched on demand last night and really enjoyed it. Bit of a slow burn, but tense bottle thriller with some dark humor in the mix. Great performances, but the ending was a bit abrupt and anti-climatic. Still, recommend if your looking for a quick watch.
shareI agree. I liked it
The acting was good, the dialogue was well-written, the cinematography and visuals were nice (really old-school/retro). The film feels like 1990s Tarantino at times. The movie kept my interest from start to finish. You really feel like you don’t know what’s going to happen
I would say, in terms of criticism, that the main character’s actions at the end were head scratching. He seems to go full-on evil, killing four people. Why wouldn’t he just call the police, wait, and then move on with his life. He risked everything for some money that he probably won’t be able to use without laundering. And I don’t think he had any chance of getting away with it: the younger sheriff saw him earlier, and his knife + fingerprints are at the scene. Just seems that his actions were so dumb
Also - it’s good to see Wendell from the 1990s series Parenthood in the movie (the fat black guy)
after the couple refused the $10 000 he should have said i'll give you $50k ; the bag was full of wads of $100 bills so even after giving 50k or 100k he still would have had plenty left (if he managed to get away of course)
shareI don't think that couple would have accepted any amount of money. Unless as a means to get the guy with a gun to go away then hand it over to the police.
shareI think he probably wouldn't have got away with it in the long run even if he'd been quicker and smarter. The deputy's description, his unusual car and possibly fingerprints would have doomed him (though fingerprinting isn't the exact science people seem to think, and especially not then). He probably would have screwed up the laundering too.
He wasn't really evil though. He killed two people in self-defence ("Bonnie" and the sheriff) and killed the other woman by accident. The only one that was straight-out murder was the husband, though he didn't really have a lot of choice by that point.
In his position, I would have called the cops. However, if the deputy hadn't visited earlier, I would have taken the money, and not fucked everything up.
As tempting as it might be would you really want that heat even if unseen by the deputy? When the police showed up and find the money missing it would be a statewide manhunt, road stops, the whole works. Radio travels faster than a car. Knife salesman was driving through he didn't know the area. I doubt he knew how to launder money.
shareWhat he could have done , and it's not that far fetched , is take a nice amount of money from the bag and bury it in the wilderness a mile away and then call the cops.
The cops after getting back to the station and counting the bag content would know there was missing money but wouldn't know why or how (and would obviously suspect the robbers split/hid the money after the robbery or on the road) , and in the case the buried money would be found the cops would have no way of proving or even simply suspect that he was the one that hid it there.
Yeah that could work. He'd still have to be careful spending it. Maybe it's easier to launder in 1974.
shareagree ; pretty good overall but the end happens too fast
shareVery 90s, very nice.
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