Mixing elements of the Western with more familiar crime-drama trappings, “Texas Heart” is an intriguing and frequently compelling motion picture, even if, at times, it seems more interested in developing its central characters than in moving on with the actual plot. Solidly acted and well shot, the film seems more comfortable with intimate, character-building scenes than with some of the more outlandish plot developments, which makes it somewhat of a mixed bag. The end result, while undeniably entertaining, could have done with some trimming (or with the replacement of some of its more cliched sequences). Erik Fellows plays Peter, an L.A. lawyer who is escaping from a terrifying mob boss, Mrs Smith (played by an scenery-chewing Lin Shaye). He’s marked for murder, so he flees...
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- 9/20/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Review by Mark Longden
One way you can be fairly sure a film didn’t work for you is, when you’ve finished watching it and discover it won an award at a film festival you never heard of, that you then check if the festival is real, or if the director of the movie is the organizer of it. Yes, and no, to those two questions, so I’m really puzzled.
Peter (Erik Fellows) is a sleazy lawyer – we know because he forgot his beautiful girlfriend’s birthday – and he represents the Smith crime family, led by Lin Shaye, who either owed someone a favour or filmed all her scenes in a day. The son of the family is on trial for some crime or other, so they’re going to throw their bookkeeper under the bus for it – only he just discovered he has an incurable cancer and...
One way you can be fairly sure a film didn’t work for you is, when you’ve finished watching it and discover it won an award at a film festival you never heard of, that you then check if the festival is real, or if the director of the movie is the organizer of it. Yes, and no, to those two questions, so I’m really puzzled.
Peter (Erik Fellows) is a sleazy lawyer – we know because he forgot his beautiful girlfriend’s birthday – and he represents the Smith crime family, led by Lin Shaye, who either owed someone a favour or filmed all her scenes in a day. The son of the family is on trial for some crime or other, so they’re going to throw their bookkeeper under the bus for it – only he just discovered he has an incurable cancer and...
- 4/3/2017
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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