Angelina Jolie back in action
Angelina Jolie back in action
Over recent years filmmaker Taylor Sheridan has had a huge impact on Hollywood. His screenplay for the hard-hitting Sicario heralded in a new age of dramatic intensity within a market that many said had gone soft. Then came his work on the under-rated Hell or High Water and the brilliant Wind River. Sheridan was no longer a lightweight, he had awards in his back pocket and actors like Jeremy Renner were lining up to work with him. To show that he was no flash in the pan then came one of the most eagerly-anticipated television shows of 2020, Yellowstone, of which Sheridan was the main creator.
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Those Who Wish Me Dead is a self-serious mess of a movie not worth cleaning up Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Maybe you ve heard the parable about the blind men and the elephant where, never having seen the animal, they try to describe it.
“Those Who Wish Me Dead” is the movie version of that.
Despite a considerable amount of talent involved, it seems like it was cobbled together from a bunch of different parts that don’t fit together. Directed by Taylor Sheridan, who gets a free pass for life for writing “Hell or High Water,” and starring Angelina Jolie (sort of), it’s a film about a smokejumper trying to overcome tragedy.
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Maybe you ve heard the parable about the blind men and the elephant where, never having seen the animal, they try to describe it.
“Those Who Wish Me Dead” is the movie version of that.
Despite a considerable amount of talent involved, it seems like it was cobbled together from a bunch of different parts that don’t fit together. Directed by Taylor Sheridan, who gets a free pass for life for writing “Hell or High Water,” and starring Angelina Jolie (sort of), it’s a film about a smokejumper trying to overcome tragedy.
It’s also about a kid on the run from assassins. It’s about what transpired to compel that kid to run, which involves his father, an accountant and yet more tragedy. It’s about a wildfire raging out of control. In its best moments, it’s about the disgruntled nature of the assassins chasing after the kid.