Release Date: August 12, 2016
Starring: Chris Pine as Toby Howard
Ben Foster as Tanner Howard
Jeff Bridges as Marcus Hamilton
Gil Birmingham as Alberto Parker
Directed by: David Mackenzie
Written by: Taylor Sheridan
Toby Howard is a poor divorced man who has spent the last year or so taking care of his sick mother. While doing so the payments on her ranch started to back up and is now in foreclosure. With his mother gone, and now out of options, Toby teams up with his brother Tanner, and ex-con, to rob the bank that are foreclosing on them to pay back the debts to the ranch.
What I love about this film was the fact that there is a bunch of questions to the film. There is never one point in the film where you fully believe that they are going to get away with robbing these banks. Part of you really wants them to get away with it. That is until you start to know more about Marcus Hamilton, the sheriff that is being forced to retire. You want him to get his last hoorah before he is going to be forced off the team.
Regardless of who you really want to "win" this battle the writing on this film is brilliant. It's truly an original and in a class of his own. When you watch a film and it sticks with you days after you have seen it that is a sign of a great film. I am still marveling at this film and it's been almost a week since I have seen it. Everything about this script was so meticulously thought out to the point where they knew that these character could totally mess up and get caught. It also set it up to where they could have gotten away with it and it would have been the best "revenge" for them to take all of the money from the bank and give it back to them for them watch it in a trust worth more than they took. It's a great way to show just how corrupt the government and the banks can be. They also show how hard it is for people who are working with their hands on farms in these little towns are suffering because of money.
I will have to say I have never see Chris Pine in a better role than this he does an amazing job. Ben Foster is the real star of the show. I don't think I have seen him in another film but he does such an amazing job here that I can't stop thinking about him in this film.
This film is very satisfying to see. It doesn't end quite like you think it will but you satisfied with how it does. It's not a conventional movie at all and that is what makes it such a great film.
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