Hell or High Water
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Smart, steady brother Toby (Chris Pine) enlists crazy, criminal brother Tanner (Ben Foster) in his plan to rob enough money from the banking chain that stole the family ranch from their late mother to pay off the reverse mortgage and taxes and then put the place in trust for Toby's sons--administered by the same bank.
Nothing could go wrong, right? Nor does anything, until they find a target branch failed and padlocked, and shift to a bigger and better-protected branch than they're used to, and people get killed.
It's a story about hierarchy of crimes, of course--as one witness says, he's seen a bank robbed that has been robbing him all his life--but it's a love story, too, or rather a pair of them: between the brothers, neither of whom can make eye contact when saying "I love you," and between the Texas Rangers on their trail (Jeff Bridges, chasing another Oscar, and Gil Birmingham), who would never say the words at all. Ranger Marcus's declaration of love is vengeful, and comes from the business end of a rifle.
Bleak, hopeful, ambivalent, and ambiguous.
Trailers
- Hacksaw Ridge--Andrew Garfield as a pacifist soldier.
- Mechanic Resurrection--Jason Statham, OK?
- A Monster Calls--Big friendly arboreal giant.
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