Review of Bone Tomahawk (2015) by Jacob E — 01 Feb 2016

The easiest way to describe Bone Tomahawk is compare it to a mash-up of The Proposition and The Descent. And seeing that both of those movies are pretty great in their own right, I shouldn't have to say much else about Bone Tomahawk. But I will anyway.

Bone Tomahawk's biggest strength is understanding that its slow burn structure has to pay-off at some point and there's no mistaking the moments in which Bone Tomahawk pays off. It's also great that none of the movie's principal performers are bad, everyone is either good or great. Kurt Russell being awesome in a movie isn't particularly surprising (neither is Patrick Wilson being awesome), but Matthew Fox is the biggest surprise, delivering one of the best amoral characters I've seen in a western in a long time. And without giving too much away, this film has some of the best gore-make-up effects I've seen in years. The ending itself leaves a little to be desired, but the overall package is fantastically horrifying and way too cool to pass up. Unless you can't handle extreme violence, in which case you should avoid this movie like the plague.