Lawless (2012)
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.
- John Hillcoat
- Nick Cave
- Matt Bondurant
Rating: 7.1/10 by 3037 users
Alternative Title:
Sin ley - ES
Gangster - PL
로우리스 2012 - KR
로우리스 - KR
Поза законом - UA
Pati girčiausia apygarda pasaulyje - LT
Os Infratores - BR
野蠻正義 - TW
欲望のバージニア：2012 - JP
Qanunsuzlar - AZ
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 55 minutes
Budget: $26,000,000
Revenue: $55,404,207
Plot Keyword: corruption, based on novel or book, prohibition era, brother, gangster, great depression, appalachia, bootlegging, shootout, brutality, church, tommy gun, moonshine, virginia, 1930s, lawman, brothers, violence
Well, as the blurb says, Lawless is the true (hmmm ?) story about the Bondurant brothers. This is one of the movies that my dear wife picked up. I had no clue concerning this movie until we watched it. It turned out be an enjoyable movie evening. This is a well done movie indeed although I felt like it could have been an even better movie at the end. Acting, scenery, general story is all quite good. Well the story is okay. It is not exactly ground breaking but rather a standard bootlegging kind of story. The new deputy is a real asshole to the extent of being somewhat unbelievable. Guy Pearce plays the role well though. That goes for the rest of the main cast as well. It is a well-acted movie. It kind of drags on a bit though. The real action where they finally take on the asshole deputy is not until the very end of the movie. Okay, that is perhaps understandable but until then the movie is quite slow. I would not have minded to see both the older Bondurant brothers being a bit more into the action but instead we mostly follow Jack (Shia LaBeouf) on his various more or less silly escapades and romantic adventures which, not very surprisingly, ends up with him leading previously mentioned asshole deputy right to their illegal booze factory…sigh! I am not 100% convinced that you can survive having your throat cut by the way. I think that was rather silly. It is a good movie and of a lot higher quality than most although perhaps not exactly my style of movie and I have to say that I thought the ending, with Forrest blundering into the frozen lake, was rather meh. Still, it is worth 6 out o10 stars but not more as far as I am concerned.
