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Promised Land review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 02/21/2013
"It's just a job." Steve Butler (Damon) is waiting for a management position with Global Crosspower Solutions, an energy company that specializes in obtaining natural gas trapped underground through a process known as fracking. He is teamed with industrious Sue (McDormand). A mysterious guy who creates a negative impact on Global named Dustin (Krasinski). He mysteriously creates anti-fracking campaigns against Global.
One of the few instances where your already watching a movie, and felt that is is indeed a movie based on the impossible sequences occurring all-throughout. Instances where Justin lights a fire inside school premises without any fire alarms/permit/knowledge of the teacher, manipulation of information without knowledge of a colleague (which the director thinks, is …
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lastonetoleave - wrote on 12/30/2012
Promised Land (2012) Steve Butler (Matt Damon) and Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand) go to a small Pennsylvania farming community to buy natural gas rights. The locals are receptive to the possibilities of a financial payout until a grassroots environmentalist (John Krasinski) arrives in town and begins to inform the townspeople about the big gas company and their controversial use of fracking, a procedure that may endanger their way of life. Gus Van Sant, the film's Director, does an admirable job of making us care not only for the farmers and their families but also for these two salespeople who see what they do as not evil, but an opportunity for the town to survive in such a tough economy. Matt Damon is perfect in the role of Steve, a sort of likable every-man, who saw his own small …
