This was right up my alley. Engaging all through, the sheer presence of Aaron Pierre made this utterly electric. Don Johnson does amazingly as a deeply evil police chief.
Civil asset forfeiture as a vehicle for a philosophy of applied pressure, righteous resistance and sheer effort of will. Terry’s fight could have ended the easy way but he ends it the hard way instead because that’s the right thing to do. Made me go “YEAHHHH” multiple times.
I think parts…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
My second watch.
Thoughts are a bit jumbled but I mainly love the way that the film positions Kessler as so dedicated to his family’s safety, a full on prepper who gives his daughter a whistle in case she gets abducted, him eventually finding the hole and the abductor and having to be humiliated and stuck in the dark like he did her son…. The cycles, the coiled snakes, the children being taken as revenge against God, a man asks…
This is one of them bad movies that’s actually pretty good if you can stand awkward acting and underwritten characters .
A strange time capsule for a moment in world history where Americans weren’t immediately detested by every non-American they meet. Not to say there isn’t a good amount of anti-yank sentiment - the movie does feel a bit like it exonerates the gentrifiers by the end, I do wish the Filmmaker was less forgiving to the group of yuppies…
