A pretty violent movie about the detriments of finding yourself at the wrong place at the wrong time. It comes off as a modern day Deliverance; however, no one quite gets to squeal like a pig (although the late Anton Yelchin's character comes pretty close at one point). The movie looks great, with a predominant green-filtered look, and the director Jeremy Saulnier, who also made the underrated Blue Ruin, shows that he's the real deal with some rare talent. In both of his movies, he has managed to tell a great story, with more tension, suspense and terrific acting, in 95 minutes or less, than most movies that are at least half-an-hour longer. Here's hoping that modern cinema is movies under 100 minutes, and not the horribly overproduced, over-written and super-long Hollywood disasters such as Batman vs Superman, The Lone Ranger and John Carter, to name just a few. The future of quality movies lies in great storytelling and memorable characters, not in overblown running times. If it were only so easy, though.
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