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created on: 12/01/2017
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Displayed (non textual) :	Person : Ben Foster This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Person : Chris Pine This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Person : Jeff Bridges This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions.
Displayed (written) info :	JEFF BRIDGES CHRIS PINE BEN FOSTER HELL OR HIGH WATER JUSTICE ISN'T A CRIME
Movie Genre :	Action This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. , Crime This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. , Drama This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions.
Color & sound :	Color
Originally released :	2016
Language - Spoken :	English
Rating :	BBFC (UK) 15 (UK) MPAA (US) R – Restricted
Running time :	102
Movie credits (on artwork) :	Actor : Ben Foster This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Actor : Chris Pine This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Actor : Gil Birmingham This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Actor : Jeff Bridges This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Casting By : Richard Hicks This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Costume Design By : Malgosia Turzanska This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Directed By : David MacKenzie This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Director Of Photography : Giles Nuttgens This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Executive Producer : Bill Lischak This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Executive Producer : Bruce Toll (Executive Producer) This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Executive Producer : Gigi Pritzker This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Executive Producer : John Penotti This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Executive Producer : Michael Nathanson This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Executive Producer : Rachel Shane This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Film Editing By : Jake Roberts This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Music By : Nick Cave This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Music By : Warren Ellis This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Producer : Carla Hacken This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Producer : Dylan Tarason This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Producer : Julie Yorn This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Producer : Kathryn Dean This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Producer : Mark Mikutowicz This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Producer : Peter Berg This endpoint is approved in the database from previous submissions. Producer : Sidney Kimmel This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Production Design By : Tom Duffield This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). Written By : Taylor Sheridan This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). A Co-Production From : Film 44 This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). A Co-Production From : LBI Entertainment This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). A Co-Production From : Oddlot Entertainment This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary). A Production From : Sidney Kimmel Entertainment This endpoint is new to the database, please check he (it) is not in with a similar endpoint name association (and use the ENA function if necessary).
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Websites	http://www.hellorhighwater.movie/#home
Description (by producer & GT in English only) :	Texas brothers - Toby (CHRIS PINE - Star Trek) and Tanner (BEN FOSTER - Lone Survivor), come together after years divided to rob branches of the bank threatening to foreclose on their family land. Vengeance seems to be theirs, until they find themselves on the radar of Texas Ranger, Marcus (JEFF BRIDGES - True Grit) looking for one last grand pursuit on the eve of his retirement. As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their scheme, and with the Rangers on their heels, a showdown looms at the crossroads where the values of Old and New West murderously collide.

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Posted by CinemasFringes (219) on januari 25, 2017

Brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner Howard (Ben Foster) stage a series of robberies at bank branches across Texas so as to pay off the debts on their family farm. Once done, their family (including Toby’s estranged wife and sons) will gain financial security from extracting the oil lying beneath the property. Ageing Texas Ranger Marcus (Jeff Bridges) and his half-Native American, half-Latino partner Alberto (Gil Birmingham) are in pursuit.

Hell or High Water is very much a Western homage transplanted to a present-day American landscape. We get a pair of bank robber brothers a la Frank and Jesse James. We get an endless desert landscape dotted with dusty towns. We get gunfights. We get fast cars in lieu of horses. We get a Stetson-wearing sheriff. We get an Indian. However, the references run deeper than mere stylistic tropes to become a commentary on how America is now versus what it was back in the frontier days. Here, Cowboy Marcus and Indian Alberto work together, and it’s no longer the white settlers grabbing land from the natives. As Alberto points out to Marcus at one point, it’s the banks seizing land from the settler’s grandsons and granddaughters who live in the endless string of dried-up towns. Each journey down the arrow-straight highway dashes past a series of billboards advertising one moneylender after another. The commentary on the modern world of debt slavery and its resultant side-effects of poverty, backward mentalities and racism (amid one robbery, an ageing bystander expresses surprise that Toby and Tanner clearly aren’t Mexicans) is all too clear.

The arid Texan landscape is very much the star here, even more so than big name actors like Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine. Giles Nuttgens’ cinematography is something to behold: during the daytime scenes we are presented with a vast world of pale dusty browns mixed with intermittent green patches pitted off against clear blue sky, while the nighttime and casino scenes have a hypnotic neon-bedecked glow to them. The vistas grant an impressive sense of scale to the movie despite its comparatively low $12 million budget. There’s a scene involving a wildfire that looks truly imposing in the way the resultant wall of smoke blots out the sky - an effect doubtless created with CGI but still impressively vivid as well as being symbolic of the devastation inflicted on these small communities via the financial crash. The exuberance of the outside world is effectively contrasted by the naturalistic, “in the moment” feel projected by shots of the bank interiors during the heist sequences.

Tonally, Hell or High Water is an unusual blend of quirky indie movie sensibilities and exciting action. A lot of the former comes from the interactions between the four protagonists and the various colourful locals they encounter on their way. Even the smallest of roles is well-defined and their characters have distinctive traits and motivations. A young diner waitress who receives an unusually generous tip from Toby while his brother robs a bank expresses her reluctance at giving up the notes for evidence - firstly because she needs the money for her mortgage and secondly because she has quite clearly taken a fancy to her customer. She is only in the film for a few minutes but we clearly feel her character has a life outside of the film’s focus. It’s the same with a lot of the people we encounter here. Admittedly the midsection does get a little too bogged down in its “character moments” rather than homing in on its central pursuit scenario. However, the exciting finale is worth the wait, featuring bloody shootings, a tense checkpoint sequence, a car chase involving a procession of SUVs, some Rambo-esque machine gun spraying and arguably the best bit of desert sniper rifle action since Mystery Road (2013).

The four leads are outstandingly good. Jeff Bridges brings yet another great character to his repertoire: a grizzled tough guy who uses casual racism in a manner that’s more part of his sarcastic demeanour than outright hostility. Gil Birmingham is more restrained as his half-breed partner but really comes into his own during their later scenes together. Chris Pine proves there’s life beyond Star Trek reboots, carving out a niche as someone capable of criminality but simultaneously reluctant to embrace it due to an innate sense of decency that even extends as far as putting his estranged family above himself. Although on the wrong side of the law - and shown once to be capable of inflicting brutal violence when he’s crossed - he’s ultimately the closest this film has to a hero. Ben Foster’s Tanner on the other hand seems to wholeheartedly embrace his own lawlessness, his rowdy rashness never quite crossing into cartoon bandit territory but certainly evincing less of a moral compass than Toby.

The other element of real note is the atmospherically sombre score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. It provides an effective grounding and underpinning to the action, rooting it more in sorrow than in any kind of romantic glory.

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