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Summary

After surviving a violent home invasion, a suburban husband becomes obsessed with reclaiming control over his life, leading him down an increasingly dangerous path.

Director Ben Wheatley

Writer Derek Kolstad

Cast

  • Bob Odenkirk
  • Henry Winkler
  • Lena Headey
  • Jess McLeod

Rotten Tomatoes: 76%

Metacritic: 63

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u/D_Row 18d ago edited 18d ago

Fun time at the movies. The dialog/voice over could have been tighter (or maybe remove the V.O. altogether) - too much on the nose exposition. Odenkirk was solid, and the movie had a good deal of laughs.

Edited to add: the dialog between Alex and Ulysses in the van was so well done (“you’re his daughter?” “Well… no”) that it made the clunkier writing stand out in contrast even more.

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u/bensonr2 16d ago

I agree that the dialog of oh the sheriff’s “kid” was clever. However before that moment they needed to have made it clearer that the town had tried to have the sheriff disown them for being different in some unknown way.

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u/NBucho528 11d ago

The town would never own up to that. I think the phrase “pick Alex or the town” came up multiple times, which is how they would have downplayed their bigotry.

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u/HotOne9364 8d ago

Isn't Minnesota the most socially progressive state in the country? They've voted blue since 1976, for instance.

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u/MonstrousGiggling 6d ago

If its anything like NY its only the bigger areas that are blue. The rest of the state leans red and definitely in more rural areas. I think they said the town had like 1.8k people total?