Rating of
4/4
Lawless, brutal and lovely.
Jake - wrote on 11/04/12
No, I did not give this 4 stars because of Tom Hardy. This is an enthralling and expertly crafted film about the bootlegging days and the tensions between the law and the outlaws. The performances are stellar across the board, love him or hate him Shia LaBeouf is a talented young actor and he gives one of his greatest performances here. Hardy is also great, as usual, as the brute older brother, always quiet and smooth, but with a hard exterior with a heart hidden beneath is persona. Guy Pierce is deliciously villainous and is Oscar worthy, so loathsome, but so deliciously bad, that every time he's on screen you just want to kill him yourself. He's great. The anachronistic touches are nice as well, like a country cover of Velvet Underground, and Emmy Lou Harris. So it's a crime drama, southerner, for modern times and it all works magically. Hopefully this gets some recognition come award season, it deserves it. More Oldman would have been nice though.
