I believe these two things are true:

1. Jason Patric used this performance as an audition tape for Forrest Gump.

2. 90% of Ryan Reynolds acting is just him mimicking Jason Patric in this movie.

Despite these two things I also think Patric is great in this movie.

Anyway, I LOVE Jim Thompson’s writing, and his novels are perfect blueprints for great movies. Some filmmakers still manage to fuck it up, but I’d definitely recommend this one.

Sergio Leone died of a heart attack on April 30, 1989. He was seated in his armchair, TV remote in hand, watching this movie.

A pretty good, though very actorly, anti-capital punishment drama.

Damian McCarthy delivers on the promise he showed with Oddity. Like that film, this is more atmospheric horror than guts and gore, and it feels funnier than I remember Oddity being. A good time at the movies, though a couple of yawns snuck in. That might just be me being tired.

A movie by BuzzFeed should have been warning enough to walk away, but I stuck it out.