"Lawless" Is Far From Flawless
John Hillcoat's newest film, set in the rural Virginia hills, is awash in blood and hooch.
We have Brits, Australians and Yankees converging on rural Virginia, trying to convey convincing hillbilly accents for John Hillcoat's newest movie, Lawless. By all accounts, there seems to be room for improvement in both the accents and in the direction, cinematography and plot of this movie. With a screenplay written by musician Nick Cave, it brings to life The Wettest County in the World, a 2008 historical novel by Matt Bondurant about his moonshine-running ancestors in Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition. Unbought and unbossed, the Bondurant Brothers (Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, and Jason Clarke) run into trouble with two visitors from Chicago, mobster kingpin Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman) and sadistic G-man Charlie Rakes (Guy …
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