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No Country For Old Screenwriters.

posted 7 years ago by cableaddict
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This is clearly a "No Country For Old Men" wannabe. - But it fails miserably.

Disasterously.

One or two good moments, padded out with almost an hour of cerebral nothingness. No clever dialog. No insights. Almost no suspense. No brilliant-but-short action scenes.

The lead actor is very good, and for a while you sort of go along with it because he's cool & likable, but then the plot just goes nowhere.

And Ian McShane is completely wasted in this.

What a shame.

2 out of 10.

[–] janus_keinaerts 7 years ago

I wasn't very impressed either but I disagree.
The dialogue was a tad too clever.
The writer went out of his way to avoid any outspoken exposition so I was constantly straining to understand what exactly was being said.

(Hell. Even Cormac McCarthy himself made this mistake with The Counselor, which was part masterpiece, part cringefest.)

Some great set-ups too. The concrete bag scene was a fantastic idea. As was the smoke-bomb-in-car-thingy.
But in these wonderful times with things like Hell or High Water, Sicario and Quarry coming out, it fell short.
I'm still glad I watched it.