Good to see McDonagh's third movie (without Brendan Gleeson for a change), the same mix of laugh out loud humour, literary characters and dark material. Here, Alexander Skarsgård (son of Stellan, and soon to be in
The Little Drummer Girl) and Michael Peña are corrupt immoral cops who get caught up with very bad men Theo James and Caleb Landry Jones (something about the latter and the film as a whole reminds me of
Dirty Harry), with Tessa Thompson and Stephanie Sigman, and Paul Reiser.
Well made and shot by Bobby Bukowski - who uses the widescreen properly - and edited by Chris Gill (
Calvary, The Guard, Danny Boyle films). You don't hear as much intelligent dialogue in anyone else's films.
We saw Peña in
Crash, The Martian, American Hustle, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Lucky Ones and
Babel), and Skarsgård in
Big Little Lies.
"I got it wrong - it's: how do you prove the chair
isn't there."
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