Those who may remember director Taylor Sheridan from his acting days specifically, as Danny Boyd in Veronica Mars or as Deputy Chief David Hale over the first two seasons of Sons of Anarchy may have been surprised to.
MOVIE REVIEW by Richard Roeper THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD Four stars Hannah .. Angelina Jolie Connor .. Finn Little Ethan ... Jon Bernthal Jack .... Aidan Gillen Patrick ... Nicholas Hoult
New Line Cinema presents a film directed by Taylor Sheridan and written by Sheridan, Michael Koryta and Charles Leavitt, based on Koryta s book. Rated R (for strong violence, and language throughout). Running time: 100 minutes. Opens Friday in theaters and on HBO Max.
One of the things I love about Taylor Sheridan s exhilarating neo-Western Those Who Wish Me Dead is how the movie spends a minimum amount of time explaining the launching point for a violent and breathtakingly suspenseful chain of events and then plunges us into one of the best thrillers in recent memory.
A pair of killers are in relentless pursuit of a young boy in Those Who Wish Me Dead, an action thriller with a neo-Western bend from the modern frontiersman of American action movies, Taylor Sheridan.
Sheridan, the screenwriter of Sicario and Hell or High Water and the creator of TV s Yellowstone, tells earthy, grounded stories of hard-working men and women who are often at odds with the power structures in which they re placed. He identifies with blurred lines of morality, and his characters are presented in shades of gray that are more interesting than clear-cut representations of right and wrong.
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.