Starring: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster
When a crime goes awry, Ruth Guthrie (Mara), a pregnant
woman shoots cop Patrick Wheeler (Foster) in the shoulder. Her boyfriend, Bob
Muldoon (Affleck), takes responsibility for the shooting and gets a lengthy
prison sentence. Eventually, Bob escapes
looking to be reunited with Ruth whilst also being hunted down.
A gritty and rustic film that balances between being a
drama and a thriller, Ain't Them Bodies Saints is a fairly engaging film with a
few problems. The biggest problem is how unevenly it handles both its roughest
and tenderest moments. The best moments of the film aren't those that deal with
the relationship between the central couple of Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck
but the relationship instead between Mara and Ben Foster. This is bolstered
more by the unique dynamic and backstory between these two likeable rather than
any problem with Affleck or the character of Bob Muldoon. However, despite
these shifts in story quality, the film has a nice pace and doesn't overstay
its welcome. With its dark and violent story and 70's Texan aesthetics, there
are comparisons to No Country For Old Men (2007) and it falls far behind that
film, but it's still entertaining and essentially works.
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