Small Town Crime (Film): Review.
I do not know exactly how this film came to my list, but it did, I do not remember when I got it, however, today I checked what movies I had available to see and I found this one, so I decided to give it a try, The synopsis promised some entertainment, and it was.
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Year: 2017
Category: Thriller.
Director: Eshom Nelms.
Cast: John Hawkes, Anthony Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Vartan, Caity Lotz, James Lafferty, Robert Forster, Octavia Spencer.
Plot
A former policeman finds a very injured girl and takes her to the hospital, shortly after she dies, which is why he decides to work as a private detective and take the case.
Opinion
Mike Kendall, an former policeman lives on unemployment insurance, and spends his days drinking alcohol, which has brought him many problems both in his career and in his personal life. One day, Mike finds a young girl seriously wounded at the edge of the road, so he decides to take her to the hospital, Mike knows the protocol and talks about what happened with a couple of his former colleagues, although one of these, like the rest of the police station, hates Mike because of an accident in the past that caused his dismissal. The next morning the girl dies in the hospital and Mike decides to investigate the case on his own.
The film is very entertaining, it is full of cliches, stereotypes and archetypal characters, and the plot is also the classic detective story, but even so, the film tries to entertain the viewer, and gets it. The director and the writers bet on the conventional and they manage to make a good movie, there is nothing new, everything has already been seen, but that does not mean that it is a bad job or that the film is boring.
The actors are convincing, although something that left me confused is that despite the fact that I found the main character charismatic due to the immutability of their emotions, it seems that nothing affects him too much, he does not seem to be suffering enough to be a character with alcohol addiction, which was adopted in childhood after becoming an orphan, and who ended his police career in an unsatisfactory way, besides being a total failure.
The film reminded me Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, directed by Shane Black, and starred by Michelle Monaghan, Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer, which also poses a relatively similar situation, detectives asking questions to different people, some lie, others do not, while dangerous people chase them. Everything is very basic, but if the classic formula has become classic it is for something.
Trailer
Score
7/10
In general the film is well done, the direction is good, the performances acceptable, and the script, although not original, is quite entertaining. I recommend it.
