You have to wonder how a family this dysfunctional could have gotten as far as they did to open the story. A little more exposition would have helped, but once it gets going it doesn't really matter. I half jokingly wrote in my review of 2019's "Badland" that Bruce Dern seems to be doing his latest roles flat on his back, like in that one and "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood". Here he gets to hang out in a wheel chair while threatening bar room thugs at the point of a shotgun, so I guess he must be feeling better. I like Dern, and it's cool to see him with about a dozen projects in various stages on his IMDb character page. At eighty four, he's like the Energizer bunny.
A drug deal gone wrong is the catalyst for this story, as Kip Conley (Josh Hartnett) pulls baby brother's (Owen Teague) fat out of the fire by unloading his rifle on a couple of drug dealers about to pull a fast one. From there, sister Josie (Margarita Levieva) takes matters into her own hands to clean up the mess, leading to the sorts of unintended consequences (and one major intended one) that pretty much spells doom for her prospects. Even the sympathetic local sheriff is pretty much helpless on this case.
The picture here is pretty dark, both in tone and execution. It's also got the kind of twists you won't be expecting, lending new meaning to the term 'sibling rivalry'. Josh Hartnett lends his voice to a song over the closing credits and to my ear he didn't sound too bad. But the real winner here is the Payless Drug store that comes on screen close to a half dozen times in the picture. They probably paid for some product placement, but I have to think they got more than their money's worth.
A drug deal gone wrong is the catalyst for this story, as Kip Conley (Josh Hartnett) pulls baby brother's (Owen Teague) fat out of the fire by unloading his rifle on a couple of drug dealers about to pull a fast one. From there, sister Josie (Margarita Levieva) takes matters into her own hands to clean up the mess, leading to the sorts of unintended consequences (and one major intended one) that pretty much spells doom for her prospects. Even the sympathetic local sheriff is pretty much helpless on this case.
The picture here is pretty dark, both in tone and execution. It's also got the kind of twists you won't be expecting, lending new meaning to the term 'sibling rivalry'. Josh Hartnett lends his voice to a song over the closing credits and to my ear he didn't sound too bad. But the real winner here is the Payless Drug store that comes on screen close to a half dozen times in the picture. They probably paid for some product placement, but I have to think they got more than their money's worth.