Director David Mackenzie’s
Hell
or High Water is a masterfully made film of Screenwriter
Taylor Sheridan’s bleak story of modern-day West Texas, an arid plain of
decaying towns around which cowboys still exist.
Chris Pine and Ben Foster
play Toby and Tanner Howard, two brothers, who rob small banks to raise money in
order to save Toby’s farm from foreclosure.
Toby is doing this for his young sons, so they don’t have to grow up
poor. And Tanner, recently out of
prison, is doing it half out of loyalty to his younger brother, but just as
much because he has nothing else to do with his life.
Paralleling their
relationship is that of two Texas Rangers, the about-to-retire Marcus Hamilton
(Jeff Bridges) and the stoic, mixed-blood Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham), who
is the butt of Hamilton’s tiresome ethnic jokes.
The acting is superb and
the technical side of this production is superb, as well.
It’s not a pretty tale,
but, if nothing else, you will learn a slick way to launder money.
I give Hell
or High Water a 4 out of 5.
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