Review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) by Everett J — 02 Jan 2014
I absolutely love watching a movie that I really have no idea what it is about, and being thrown curveball after curveball. Movies nowadays are very much the same and predictable. Doesn't mean they're bad, just it's usually same ole same ole.
So, when you get a movie like "Place Beyond the Pines" it's a real breath of fresh air. Kind of like how "Looper" was in 2012. Ryan Gosling stars as a motorcycle stuntman who finds out he has a year old son that he didn't know existed with Eva Mendes.
He realizes he needs to be a father and provide, so he gets involved with a guy who robs banks. From there Gosling robs a couple banks, and he eventually has a run in with a cop(Bradley Cooper) and from there, things completely change.
If I say anything else about the plot of this movie, it would ruin it. It's basically 3 different movies within one and it's fantastic. There's some real high thrilling drama in this movie.
Gosling and Cooper both give one of their best performances. Ray Liotta is amazing also in the small role he has. He is the best sleazy cop actor alive. But to me the best performance of the movie is Dane Dehann.
He's the troubled kid from another great movie called "Chronicle". He is just mezmorizing. Dehann's one of the best young actors today, kind of like a younger Ryan Gosling, weird I know.
He's only in a quarter of the movie, and some of his scenes are some of the most effective. If I made a best of 2013 list right now, this would either be 1 or 2(It's that close to "Iron Man 3").
If you love movies, then do not pass this up. Great movies like this come out once or twice a year, if that, so you gotta check em out when they do.
This review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) was written by Everett J on 02 Jan 2014.
The Place Beyond the Pines has generally received positive reviews.
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