Review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) by Mark V — 08 Dec 2013
A deeply repellent low-life stunt-rider and bank robber, with a one year old son, is shot dead by ambitious young cop climbing the slippery pole in a corrupt police department. By writerly coincidence, he also has a son exactly the same age, and oh God, can you see where this is going, or what? This is a lumbering, overlong, frequently aimless, contrived, manipulative fiction, which takes itself for Ibsen.
But where he had the sins of the fathers being visited upon sons, here the pretensions of film makers are visited instead upon the audience. Inflated and dismal.
This review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) was written by Mark V on 08 Dec 2013.
The Place Beyond the Pines has generally received positive reviews.
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