Review of Hell or High Water (2016) by Hotelcentral — 09 Apr 2017

The acting is solid but the story is meh. The police spend most of their time engaged in idle banter and do virtually nothing that might be described as "police work" or "investigating" unless you include making wild guesses. The justification for the two brothers committing all kinds of mayhem is slim at best and boils down to the argument that they will lose everything if they don't pay off the mortgage on time. Well, that's a little bit like saying, "Hey, I've got cancer, so it's OK for me to become a vicious druglord because how else am I going to provide for my family after I'm dead.".

If that's how your moral compass points the way then you have my condolences.

For me, the high point of the film was what amounted to a comic reenactment of the Northfield, Minnesota, "raid" of 1876 in which most of the James-Younger gang got themselves very nearly shot to pieces by ordinary citizens who grabbed rifles from the local general store.

I do not recommend this film unless you seriously have nothing better to do.