If some of them do it with the idiotic notion of ‘saving the homestead,’ I doubt that they follow through on that idea. Toby and Tanner are good-looking, funny and capable guys, not the reckless malefactors that really rob banks. Even when doing bad things, Toby tries to behave in a civilized manner. He feels that he has no choice in what he’s doing, and he’s nobody’s fool. He’s not a liberal ‘Henry Fonda’ outlaw, the innocent victim that makes socially perceptive speeches before being wiped out by ‘The Man.’ Toby is more like Gary Cooper or Robert Ryan. But Toby in Hell or High Water is different. Speaking for myself, as soon as the thieves put ordinary citizens in danger, I go on the ‘shoot ’em down like dogs’ list. The tension in crime films about rural bandits comes when we identify with the bandits, ‘bad’ people. It’s also true that people are being squeezed, and badly.
It’s no longer enough to tell so-called ‘losers’ in the economy that it’s entirely their own fault, because all they had to do is get an education and take on some kind of profession. We quietly feel good because we have more options than they do. Normally speaking, in a crime film about rural bandits we play the guilty game of siding with the crooks as they have a blast doing things we’d never dare do. Everywhere the brothers drive we see signs offering land for sale, and bank-initiated ads offering predatory loans. It’s a social conscience film based not on liberal ideals but the realities that have resulted in a destructive national rebellion. It’s true - Hell or High Water is a Trump Western. Does this reckless crime spree have a chance of paying off? They even decide that one of the crooks is slightly insane, when Tanner impulsively robs a different bank by himself, while Toby is in a coffee shop across the street, unaware. Together they figure out the pattern of the thieves’ crimes. On their case is a pair of veteran Texas Rangers, all-but-retired Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges) and Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham). The thieves launder their winnings in a casino. All they can hope is that they can get enough money so that Toby can stay in the clear.
Tanner is dedicated to helping his brother but has no illusions about what they’re doing. The robberies go well for the most part but Tanner is enough of a loose cannon to make success unlikely. In a last-ditch effort to reverse his situation, Toby has asked his ne’er-do-well Brother Tanner (Ben Foster), who has recently come out of a long prison stretch, to help him rob Texas Midlands branches, to pay the bankers back with their own money. His wife has left him and taken his two boys, and he hasn’t seen them in almost a year because he can’t make his child support payments. This is bad news, as Toby’s family has all but disintegrated. Like practically everybody else in his part of Texas, rancher Toby Howard (Chris Pine) is about to lose out to the Texas Midlands Bank, which has led him down a path of loans that guarantee that he’ll default. The approach and tone are entirely different, even if the characters are almost as desperate.
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Story-wise the closest another movie comes to this show is the Coen Bros.’ No Country for Old Men. It has amusing secondary characters and a sympathetic leading performance in Chris Pine, the movies’ new Captain Kirk. It’s a suspenseful crime film with credible situations and believable, non-hyped violence. Hell or High Water has everything to be a hit. I don’t recognize the titles of any of director David Mackenzie’s films, but he’s got a solid credit here. Basically a ‘Jesse James’ story of desperation and hopelessness, Hell or High Water expresses the frustration and rage of people that no longer believe that the economy is working on their behalf. The issue here is not the Drug War, but the abandonment of what was once an American middle class. Like Sicario, Hell or High Water functions first as a seamless, tightly scripted crime thriller. Someone nominate actor/screenwriter Taylor Sheridan for public office: between this movie and the excellent Sicario (2015), he seems to have good handle on what’s griping the ‘forgotten’ America, the people that revolted in last Tuesday’s election. Produced by Peter Berg, Carla Hacken, Sidney Kimmel, Julie Yorn Starring Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Alberto Parker, Katy Mixon, Kevin Rankin, Marin Ireland, John-Paul Howard, Melanie Papalia. Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster lead a crime spree through a depressed, forgotten America.Ģ016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 122 min. Texan outlaws rob banks to fight what appears to be a rigged system the Texas Ranger who tracks them realizes that much of the population feels the same exact way. Sheltered in my Los Angeles bubble, I can’t believe that this crime movie had an accurate measure of the true pulse of the country.
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