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- 2016
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 42 m
- 2016
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 42 m
Summary Two brothers—Toby (Chris Pine), a straight-living, divorced father trying to make a better life for his son; and Tanner (Ben Foster), a short-tempered ex-con with a loose trigger finger—come together to rob branch after branch of the bank that is foreclosing on their family land. The hold-ups are part of a last-ditch scheme to take back ...
Directed By: David Mackenzie
Written By: Taylor Sheridan
- 2016
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 42 m
- 2016
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 42 m
Hell or High Water
8.1
Where to Watch
Summary Two brothers—Toby (Chris Pine), a straight-living, divorced father trying to make a better life for his son; and Tanner (Ben Foster), a short-tempered ex-con with a loose trigger finger—come together to rob branch after branch of the bank that is foreclosing on their family land. The hold-ups are part of a last-ditch scheme to take back ...
Directed By: David Mackenzie
Written By: Taylor Sheridan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 47 Critic Reviews
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98% Positive
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46 Reviews
2% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 47 Critic Reviews
88
98% Positive
46 Reviews
46 Reviews
2% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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And Bridges? What's there to say about a man who makes it look so easy, and who - in one breathless, pivotal scene - runs through a range of emotion like a wild pony running across the land. Genius, any way you look at it.
With electrifying, graceful direction by David Mackenzie...a rich, darkly humorous and deeply insightful screenplay by Taylor Sheridan...and no fewer than four performances as good as anything I’ve seen onscreen this year, Hell or High Water is an instant classic modern-day Western, traveling down familiar roads but always, always with a fresh and original spin.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 762 User Ratings
8.1
89% Positive
679 Ratings
679 Ratings
9% Mixed
65 Ratings
65 Ratings
2% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 762 User Ratings
8.1
89% Positive
679 Ratings
679 Ratings
9% Mixed
65 Ratings
65 Ratings
2% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
One of, if not 2016's best movie.
This modern day western with it's tale of vengeance and brotherly love has all the hallmarks of an American classic.
A well written, beautifully shot movie, that has an excellent soundtrack, it is hard to find too many, if any, flaws with this movie.
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Hell or High Water is that rare offering that both feels old-fashioned in its action-thriller gratification and in-the-moment about everything else.
In a word, Hell or High Water is terrific.
Taut, tense and burnished by Jeff Bridges at his best. This is a deceptively simple tale of Texan cops and robbers that drags the Old West into the modern age.
Despite treading some familiar territory, British director David Mackenzie's new film Hell or High Water proves itself a brilliantly executed, sharply written genre gem.
A film with a fistful of memorable moments—most of them involving Bridges hurling insults at people—but not a great deal new to say.
For me the movie fell kinda short on some aspects. It's a very slow-paced movie, what you don't expect from a heist movie. I felt like the movie was unfinished. Never the less, the performances were on point with a love-hate realtionship between Toby (Chris Pine) and his brother Tanner (Ben Foster). The relationships between them is well explored.
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The acting is solid but the story is meh. The police spend most of their time engaged in idle banter and do virtually nothing that might be described as "police work" or "investigating" unless you include making wild guesses. The justification for the two brothers committing all kinds of mayhem is slim at best and boils down to the argument that they will lose everything if they don't pay off the mortgage on time. Well, that's a little bit like saying, "Hey, I've got cancer, so it's OK for me to become a vicious druglord because how else am I going to provide for my family after I'm dead."
If that's how your moral compass points the way then you have my condolences.
For me, the high point of the film was what amounted to a comic reenactment of the Northfield, Minnesota, "raid" of 1876 in which most of the James-Younger gang got themselves very nearly shot to pieces by ordinary citizens who grabbed rifles from the local general store.
I do not recommend this film unless you seriously have nothing better to do.
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A dull film about mainly uninteresting people. One critic I read mentioned “Bonnie and Clyde” when reviewing this film, and I wonder what he was smoking. Ben Foster and Chris Pike do a good job with the two main characters, but their real motivations were murky until the very end when things finally got interesting. But that was more the scriptwriter’s fault and not theirs. Jeff Bridges played the Jeff Bridges character and I read he was “foul-mouthed.” I found his “joshing” with his partner highly offensive and racist. If you love clichés and despair, this is the movie for you.
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Production Company
CBS Films,
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment,
Madison Wells,
Film 44,
LBI Productions,
Oddlot Entertainment
Release Date Aug 12, 2016
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating R
Tagline Blood always follows money.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 4 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Nominations
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
• 6 Wins & 10 Nominations
