The film drips with depressing reminders of the hell and high water that has already come: spear-carrier characters in passing gripe about the unfair economic hardships they face the only well-maintained things in these rundown Texas tumbleweed towns are the billboards offering payday loans and debt relief. (I’m not entirely sure whether every step of the brothers’ multipronged robbery and money-laundering scheme would actually work, but it’s certainly gripping in a step-by-daring-step way.) But as the filmmakers’ previous work indicates, they are more interested in brutal reality than popcorn escapism… and there haven’t been too many movies this year as grounded in reality as Hell or High Water is. There is method to their madness, and it has to do with serving up revenge cold.ĭirector David Mackenzie - who made the devastating prison drama Starred Up - and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan - with his second script after the savage war-on-drugs thriller Sicario - give us plenty of heist-movie-style humor and suspense. (Tanner is a bit of loose cannon, and has served time for a violent crime, but there are hints that there were secret justifications for that, too, that few people would argue with.) They are targeting one particular local bank, robbing only its branches, because that bank has cheated their family out of their ranch, and just as oil was discovered on their land, in a way that was wholly legal.
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The brothers aren’t exactly Robin Hoods, but they’re not exactly villains, either.