R | 1h 42min | Crime, Drama | 12 August, 2016 (USA) Americans enjoy the old Wild West phrase, “Runnin’ from the law,” and we like to glorify our dangerous bad boys who run from it, like John Dillinger, Clyde Barrow, Butch Cassidy, and Jesse James. “My coward ex is runnin’ from the law,” say many 20-something American women, exasperatedly (but also with a hint of pride), of the delinquents they’ve dated. “Coward” usually means there’s a baby involved. The young ladies would take that bad boy back in a heartbeat though. It’s particular to the USA to romanticize this brand of dysfunction; the poster boy for the stereotype would be “JD” in “Thelma & Louise” (Brad Pitt,) and the quintessential American Western outlaw activity was, of course—bank robbery. Movie heartthrob Chris Pine plays one such bank-robbing n’er-do-well in “Hell or High Water,” a Texan slow dance of a what could be …
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Hell Or High Water’: A Neo-Western About Bank-Robbing Robber Banks
February 25, 2022
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