![]() ![]() Marcus is on the verge of a retirement that he doesn’t want, and takes a gloomy and almost elegiac pleasure in all the details of this last case he and Alberto have many a scene in which they enter smalltown restaurants and order coffee with elaborate old-school courtesy from waitresses who are usually charmed, except for one who grumpily insists they have steak because that’s what everyone has, and still angrily remembers some out-of-towner in 1987 who tried to order “trout”. His partner Alberto (Gil Birmingham) is a Native American in the same getup with whom Marcus does not scruple to make bad-taste jokes about ethnicity. Hell or High Water offers a solidly crafted, well-acted Western heist thriller that eschews mindless gunplay in favor of confident pacing and full-bodied characters. Meanwhile, Marcus – amusingly played by Jeff Bridges – is the Texas ranger on the boys’ trail, wearing the regulation plain shirt, white Stetson and sunglasses. ![]() They decide to rob the bank's branches, putting themselves in the crosshairs of an aging Texas Ranger Bridges in a riveting story of. When a desperate fathe Pine learns the bank is going to take his family's land, he and his ex-con brother Foster are left with no choice. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that's about to foreclose on their family ranch. Describes issuers (borrowers) permission to incur a specified amount of debt from third parties under a general debt basket in the indenture. Oscar winner Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster lead this acclaimed action-drama from the writer of SICARIO. His brother is an ex-con with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Toby is a divorced father who's trying to make a better life. With Dale Dickey, Ben Foster, Chris Pine, William Sterchi. Tanner is a career criminal whom his mother hated, so the bank heists could be Toby’s way of helping him out. Hell or High Water: Directed by David Mackenzie. Stranger still is that Toby could now theoretically be a rich man, having been the sole beneficiary of his late mother’s will, getting the property on which oil has been discovered but which he has actually made over in trust for his children, after his divorce, in financial conditions which at first glance make his new bank-robbing career even more baffling. ![]() Weirdly, they also stick to branches of one particular bank. There’s also a vague sense memory of the 1960s western Lonely Are the Brave, with Kirk Douglas’s cowboy on the run.Ĭhris Pine and Ben Foster are two brothers, Toby and Tanner: one smart and one stupid, but both equally engaged in the high-risk business of robbing banks – early in the morning, taking only small-denomination untraceable bills, making it hardly worthwhile for the bank to press charges. Hell or High Water is a heist picture with a satirical edge that reminded me of Brecht’s dictum about robbing a bank being a waste of time compared to owning one it’s also a gloomy reverie about the hostile Texan plain, comparable to the Coens’ No Country for Old Men, or Blood Simple. ![]()
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