Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Eric Bana | ... | Addison | |
Olivia Wilde | ... | Liza | |
Charlie Hunnam | ... | Jay | |
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Dennis Lafond | ... | Theo |
Patrick Kerton | ... | State Trooper | |
Kwasi Songui | ... | Corrections Officer | |
Kris Kristofferson | ... | Chet Mills | |
Sissy Spacek | ... | June Mills | |
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John Robinson | ... | Ronnie |
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Job Daniel | ... | Young Boxer |
Kate Mara | ... | Hanna Becker | |
Jocelyne Zucco | ... | Doris | |
Treat Williams | ... | Sheriff Marshall T. Becker | |
Jason Cavalier | ... | Deputy Travis | |
Maxime Savaria | ... | Deputy Brice |
After a heist of a casino, the criminal Addison and his sister Liza are on the run to Canada. Addison tells his sister to get a ride to the border while he will cross the woods. Meanwhile, the former boxer Jay, released from prison on probation, calls his mother June who invites her son for Thanksgiving dinner. While driving on the road, he sees Liza and gives her a ride. But Sheriff Marshall T. Becker is hunting Addison with his men but excludes his daughter, Deputy Hanna, from the hunting party. An unlikely gathering of characters for a Thanksgiving celebration. Written by Jim Rude, KCMOUSA
Quite a good little crime drama with a snowy backdrop and isolation as an insistent threat. The tension is woven with the back stories of those involved all leading to an inevitable confrontation and a predictable solution.
Getting there is the fun and this movie delivers enough action and suspense to keep one's interest and it has a semi-stylish tone that is better in the action department then in the character's and their development. The acting ranges from the intense too intensely wooden. Eric Bana is engaging in an aloof amalgamation of insanity and infantile. The other male lead (Charlie Hunnam) barely registers even though he is given the most screen time.
There is very little invested in the female Deputy and her Sheriff Dad, and the conflicted Parents. Some effort is made in the end to strengthen these complex situations but it is really rushed and rather anti-climactic.
It is best when things are on the move and the hunt is on and at worst in the convoluted love story in the middle. Overall it is a good thriller that can be enjoyed for its moving parts, despite the stale and stoic presentation of psychological situations that are presented in such shallowness as to be distracting.