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Overview
1931, Au cœur de l’Amérique en pleine Prohibition, dans le comté de Franklin en Virginie, état célèbre pour sa production d’alcool de contrebande, les trois frères Bondurant sont des trafiquants notoires : Jack, le plus jeune, ambitieux et impulsif, veut transformer la petite affaire familiale en trafic d’envergure. Il rêve de beaux costumes, d’armes, et espère impressionner la sublime Bertha… Howard, le cadet, est le bagarreur de la famille. Loyal, son bon sens se dissout régulièrement dans l’alcool qu’il ne sait pas refuser… Forrest, l’aîné, fait figure de chef et reste déterminé à protéger sa famille des nouvelles règles qu’impose un nouveau monde économique. Lorsque Maggie débarque fuyant Chicago, il la prend aussi sous sa protection. Seuls contre une police corrompue, une justice arbitraire et des gangsters rivaux, les trois frères écrivent leur légende : une lutte pour rester sur leur propre chemin, au cours de la première grande ruée vers l’or du crime.
Cast
- Shia LaBeouf as Jack Bondurant
- Tom Hardy as Forrest Bondurant
- Gary Oldman as Floyd Banner
- Guy Pearce as Charlie Rakes
- Jason Clarke as Howard Bondurant
- Jessica Chastain as Maggie Beauford
- Mia Wasikowska as Bertha Minnix
- Dane DeHaan as Cricket Pate
- Lew Temple as Deputy Henry Abshire
- Chris McGarry as Danny
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Reviews
Acting, scenery, general story is all quite good. Well the story is okay. It is not exactly ground breaking but rather a standard bootlegging kind of story. The new deputy is a real asshole to the extent of being somewhat unbelievable. Guy Pearce plays the role well though. That goes for the rest of the main cast as well. It is a well-acted movie.
It kind of drags on a bit though. The real action where they finally take on the asshole deputy is not until the very end of the movie. Okay, that is perhaps understandable but until then the movie is quite slow. I would not have minded to see both the older Bondurant brothers being a bit more into the action but instead we mostly follow Jack (Shia LaBeouf) on his various more or less silly escapades and romantic adventures which, not very surprisingly, ends up with him leading previously mentioned asshole deputy right to their illegal booze factory…sigh! I am not 100% convinced that you can survive having your throat cut by the way. I think that was rather silly.
It is a good movie and of a lot higher quality than most although perhaps not exactly my style of movie and I have to say that I thought the ending, with Forrest blundering into the frozen lake, was rather meh. Still, it is worth 6 out o10 stars but not more as far as I am concerned.