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- 2016
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 37 m
- 2016
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 37 m
- 2016
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 37 m
- 2016
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 37 m
The Hollow Point
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5.6
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
41
20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
30% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
41
20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
30% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
The Hollow Point is a blazing contemporary western that finds pleasure in punishment.
As homage, the film is visually striking, littered with moments of real cinematographic intelligence, and always watchable, in a nasty sort of way, but as a thriller, its ambitions of intensity are thwarted by a plot which becomes increasingly out-there as the twists and turns pile up.
There are sporadic compensations for your investment of time: Ian McShane’s robust overplaying of an unapologetically scuzzy small-town lawman, John Leguizamo’s dead-serious villainy as a scarily resilient hit man, evocative lensing by David Jose Montero, and a few modestly inventive twists in the otherwise predictable plot.
It knows of its B-movie roots, its tired plot and well-worn archetypes, and beneath the burden of the sorely unoriginal, it does manage to be occasionally funny, occasionally surprising, and occasionally the bloody and bombastic genre cliche it set out to be.
Lyew kills the story with implausible twists, but he does craft some effective, original set pieces.
Gonzalo López-Gallego's direction isn't confident enough to allow us to ignore The Hollow Point's contrivances.
The Hollow Point is all hollow, no point.
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5.6
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