Review of Arkansas

Arkansas (2020)
7/10
Beware: this is NOT a regular crime drama. It's firstmost a laidback character portrait of small time husslers. Best suited for arthouse movie fans of slowburning dramas.
6 December 2020
2 small time criminals accidentally get the chance of running a drugs dealing business. Will they succeed in running it successfully or die trying?

I liked this movies' laidback, slowburning feel, but I guess the regular crime fans wont like this movie, because the focus of this movie is first most about the characters instead of cool poses and shootouts, although there are still a few pretty cruel murder scenes to be seen.

Acting is terrific. Even Liam Hemsworth is good and Vince Vaughn plays one of his best serious acting performances ever. Supporting roles are good as well.

Any bad? Not really, but this movie was based upon a novel and the director followed that novel structure with many jumps in time, which dont really work for the movie. The story structure is somewhat disjointed. What works in a book often does not work well in a movie.

Other than that minor criticism, I would recommend this movie to any arthouse movie fan of subtle, slowburning crime dramas. It mesmerized me and I will start paying attention to other works of this great director called Clark Duke.
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