Hell Or High Water - Digital HD [4K UHD]

I don’t know how this flick ever slipped under the radar for me. Not a date movie lol, more of a guy’s flick. Great acting, great story, great directing. Best I’ve seen in a while. Five stars.

Great movie

This movie is amazing. The casting pairs between Chris Pine/Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges/Gil Birmingham is the best, each pair plays off each other as if they really have been together for years and years. The story makes a great statement on current affairs without being preachy, and the storyline keeps you watching, there are no slow or dull moments in this film. It is equally balanced between the serious and the humor, ("what don't you want") and tells a story that almost all of us could empathize with. The ending is fantastic too as it really is probably closer to how things would really happen than most movies of this kind. This is storytelling at it's best, and is an amazing movie. The disappointment comes in that it was under limited release which I believe kept it from garnering too much interest, then when it finally went on wider release got relegated to very few viewing times, though it was a pretty full theater when I went to see it. Since I don't watch too much regular television I can't say what the publicity for it has been like, but I feel like advertisement for it could have been better, it did get alot of mention on twitter, lots of rave reviews there. The timing was a bit of a hitch too, as it came out between two blockbusters in Star Trek and Suicide Squad. Hopefully the only people that matter are the ones looking to hand out awards, because this movie surely deserves them! I can't say enough about this movie, except to say that it is certainly money well spent, and I assure you, that you will not regret going to see this one!

What does a Texas Ranger, a couple of desperate brothers and a small town Texas bank have in common? You'll find out when you go see Hell or High Water. A Texas tale as fancy as an old 10-gallon hat and a Texas twang. I'm not making fun of Texas, but this terrific movie has the charm and southern hospitality of a shot of sipping whiskey poured out of an old pair of cowboy boots. Is there any better character actor this side of Tommy Lee Jones than Jeff Bridges? Seriously, is there? Go and see this movie just because he's in it, you will not be disappointed. Hell, you could almost feel the Texas heat of the day coming off the screen. And Jeff Bridges is a true American treasure on the big screen, like fine wine he gets better with age, and perfectly cast as Marcus Hamilton; a retiring old school Texas Ranger working his last case - these 2 brothers who carefully and smartly rob small town banks, in order to save their family farm. This film is not just about a pair of bank robbers, this is about family, all kinds of family. It's about law and order and the plight of "just folk." It is life and about attitude the size of........you know, TEXAS. It is No Country for Old Men, meets The Bank Job with a good heaping portion of Firefly. Chris Pine commands the screen as the younger brother, both he and Bridges just ooze silent, cowboy testosterone. " Hell or High Water is a Texas yarn told around a campfire, after eating yer grub and tossing back a few. And just like Firefly, there are a few characters in there adding to the spiked stew. This film was indeed a treat guys. A man's film, guns and ammo, manhunt and good old fashion sheriff vs. Jesse James cat & mouse - right up to the very end. But don't worry ladies, there's something there for you to hang your hat on. Hell, all you gun-toting and film-loving fools will get a kick out of this film. Rich with both very little dialogue and genuine flavorful quotes; it is a modern-day western but with cars instead of horses. Shot on the dusty backroads and one-stop-light towns of West Texas; wonderfully paced like an old Waylon Jennings country tune - the Highwayman with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.

The first half of the movie starts out as a well-worn trope. You're thinking "I've seen this before... down-on-his-luck reckless brother ruins it for the careful brother" and wow, the second half really delivers. That's some real man stuff. Not a chick-flick, that's for sure!

I wasn't sure about this movie when I saw the trailer, I honestly thought Chris Pine was going to be out of his depth trying to play a down on his luck bank robbing West Texas boy. Glad to see I was wrong. The story is well done and gripping. I usually don't like rooting for the bad guys in movies but I found myself understanding Toby's motivation as the story progressed. Generations of his family kept in desolate poverty due to the predatory nature of the banks they had to deal with. And all he wanted to do is give his sons a better chance than he or his parents ever had. In the end, you find yourself conflicted because a part of you is happy he succeeded in his plan to save the ranch and pass it on to his boys and the other part is angry at the means in which it was accomplished. Not many movies can do that to me. The entire cast was incredible. Jeff Bridges shines as a long in the tooth Tesas Ranger facing imminent retirement. Gil Birmingham was perfect as the long suffering partner of Bridges. In fact, I found something to like about each character and not just the main ones. Outstanding performances from so many people makes this movie an absolute pleasure to watch and it is definitely one that is going in my library to be watched again and again.

I was dubious about buying this movie - thought it might just be a B show with gratuitous violence-, but needed to because I am fascinated by Jeff Bridges acting styles and the characters he plays- great as usual. It seems so many times though other actors just cannot keep pace with his abilities. Not so with this movie... it is brilliant and the setting incredible. It is a modern version of a really good western... I plan watching this at least one more time. Very good value for the money- My rating is 9.8 out of 10.

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Manchmal treibt die Verzweiflung seltsame Blüten: Als die beiden Brüder Tanner und Toby Howard erfahren haben, dass sich die Bank demnächst das Grundstück ihrer hoch verschuldet verstorbenen Mutter unter den Nagel reißen will, auf dem sich allerdings einige lohnenswerte Erdölvorkommen befinden, beginnen sie eine Reihe von Banküberfällen, um ausreichend Geld für die Tilgung der Ausstände zusammenzubekommen. Der kurz vor seiner Pensionierung stehende Texas Ranger Hamilton wird jedoch auf die eigentlich recht unbedeutenden Überfälle aufmerksam und heftet sich gemeinsam mit seinem Partner Alberto an die Fersen der beiden Brüder, deren Frist zur Zahlung der Schulden langsam ausläuft. Eine nicht ganz alltägliche Geschichte, ausladend erzählt und mit exzellenten Darstellern (u.a. Jeff Bridges und Ben Foster) besetzt - Zutaten, die schon fast zu klassisch sind, um einen Film für den Mainstream zu generieren, der "Hell or High Water" zum Glück auch absolut nicht sein will. Echte Männer mit all ihren Sorgen und Nöten treffen auf die bittere Realität einer maroden Gesellschaft, die sie zu einer absoluten Gratwanderung zwingt. Dazu gibt es einen herrlichen Soundtrack (Nick Cave!), der dem wunderbaren Neo-Western eine stimmige Note verleiht, die obendrein noch von den Landschaftsaufnahmen aus Texas und Umgebung regelrecht geadelt wird. Es ist ein Streifen mit Ecken und Kanten und aus meiner Sicht der beste der "American Frontier"-Trilogie aus der Feder von Taylor Sheridan. Auch technisch macht der Film eine, für das oft genug stiefmütterlich behandelte, überraschend gute Figur: Das Bild bietet einen hohen Detailgrad, natürliche Farben und passable Schwarzwerte. Die deutsche Tonspur in DTS-HD MA 5.1 kommt recht satt daher, fällt genregemäß aber sehr frontlastig aus und bietet nur selten erwähnenswerte Raumeffekte. Bei den Extras finden sich zahlreiche Einblicke in die Produktion und Konzeption des Filmes, die aber das Rad in Summe nicht neu erfinden. Stilsicher inszenierter Neo-Western, der mit ironischer Authentizität und tollen Darstellern ein dezent klischeebeladenes, aber sicher nicht ganz unwahres, Bild jenes Teiles der USA ins Wohnzimmer zaubert.

I'm not always drawn to the Western genre, but a good one will draw me in, and 'Hell or High Water' does fit the bill of a good example. The film follows two brothers (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) who have been, for reasons explained in the film, carrying out a series of armed robberies of banks. Eventually finding a way onto their trail are a veteran lawman (Jeff Bridges) and his partner. Eventually, paths will be crossed but although that's the basic narrative, it's one of those great finds where you can, if you want to, pull much more than that from it. Vast landscapes, people surviving in whatever way they can and making decisions which don't necessarily make them bad, but which have to be reckoned with not nonetheless, coupled with some effective characterisation and great performances, push the film beyond being a run of the mill piece. I found myself really drawn into the characters by the end, and enjoyed it a lot. There's an adequate selection of extras, including a 30 minute Q&A with the director and main cast, featurettes and footage from the premiere in Austin, Texas that all in run around 75 minutes. The featurettes are more interesting than the Q&A but it's an OK package.