A man has shot 12 people and killed four, including himself - a story that could, sadly, be taken right from today's headlines. Alvarado Jr., David A.Ana Reeder stars as Ginnifer in the Keen Company production of Courtney Baron's When It's You, directed by Jonathan Silverstein, at the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row.Ī mass shooting is at the center of Courtney Baron's When It’s You. Managerial victims: Myk Watford, Boots Southerlandīorder bridge youths: Philip Bentham, Eric Reeves, Josh Meyerįlatbed driver: Chris Warner INS official: Brandon Smithīoys on bikes: Josh Blaylock, Caleb Jones Producers: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel CoenĮxecutive producers: Robert Graf, Mark Roybal Screenwriter-directors: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen But McCarthy and the Coens would rather offer macho posturing about lost ideals than get down to business. His vet is tough and resourceful, though, and the film cries out for a resolution that, if not a happy one, would at least be satisfying. Woody Harrelson has a brief and redundant role as a mistakenly cocky bounty hunter.īrolin is terrific as the likable country boy who sees his shot at the main chance and grabs it, although mid-way through the film when he has survived long enough to reach Mexico, he inexplicably doesn’t stay there. Sheriff Bell is on the case, looking to prevent the madman from killing too many people, especially Moss, but instead of being the Tommy Lee who always gets his man, this officer of the law is an ineffectual old windbag. Chiguhr mostly just slays anyone he encounters but now and then he lets the toss of a coin decide someone’s fate. Chiguhr, however, joins the list of implacable murderers such as Hannibal Lecter and the Terminator whose encounters with terrified innocent people are played for laughs. It sounds like something Carl Hiaasen would come up with, but Bardem plays the drug runner with such humorless conviction that his weapon of choice becomes truly threatening. Leading the chase is Chigurh, a man of perhaps East European extraction, who carries a tank of compressed air attached to the kind of bolt gun used to slaughter cattle. Inevitably, men with guns who have a proprietary interest in the contraband make their presence felt and Moss is fast on the run. So goes in the dark to the isolated killing scene where he knows there’s a vast quantity of drugs. Not about taking the money but about leaving a dying man with no water. He takes the money back to the trailer he shares with a devoted young wife played convincingly by Kelly MacDonald, but in the middle of the night he is stricken with guilt. Absurdly, for a seasoned hunter on that arid terrain, Moss doesn’t have any. One man remains alive and asks for water. Bodies litter the ground between shot-out vehicles, there’s a truckload of neatly packed dope and a satchel containing millions of dollars. There is a lot of carnage in “Old Men,” and some of it has already taken place when Vietnam veteran Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) comes across the scene of what is obviously a big-time drug deal gone bad. film with such a colorful villain, but word-of-mouth about its fizzled conclusion may do damage at the boxoffice. Audiences will flock to see a mainstream Coen Bros. The entire premise of the film is to pitch three men onto a path that will lead to a final reckoning, but it just peters out. Plot holes, cracker-barrel philosophizing and setting a major climactic scene offscreen serve to undo all their fine work. 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' Review: Jennifer Lawrence Is Sorely Missed in Dour Prequel Short on Excitement
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