Review: 'Hell or High Water' is intense modern Western

[The Patriot]

Review: 'Hell or High Water' is intense modern Western

08-09-2016 10:37 AM

In the desolate Texas of "Hell or High Water," a bank clerk (Dale Dickie) gently sasses the ski-masked robbers with the condescending assessment, "y'all are new at this." That's the world created by director David Mackenzie and writer Taylor Sheridan in this post-recession Western, which plays like a Johnny Cash song come to life. All the adventures and angst of the good bad guys that Cash sang about are on screen, in this tale of men fighting for prosperity in a world that's no longer made for them.


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