Directed by:
John DahlCinematography:
Marc ReshovskyComposer:
William OlvisCast:
Nicolas Cage, J. T. Walsh, Lara Flynn Boyle, Timothy Carhart, Dennis Hopper, Dwight Yoakam, Dan Shor, Robert Beecher, Craig Reay, Jody Carter, Michael Ruud (more)VOD (1)
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Dead tired and flat broke after driving 12,000 miles, an unemployed Texan, Michael (Nicolas Cage), walks into a tavern in tiny Red Rock, Wyoming, and is immediately offered a job. There’s just one problem: the owner thinks Michael is a hitman, and the “job” is murdering the owner’s wife (Lara Flynn Boyle). Just when Michael decides to take the money and run, the real hitman (Dennis Hopper) arrives, ready to do the job right. (Plan B Entertainment)
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Contract killings, cheating, a load of money, a corrupt sheriff, a dangerous femme fatale, a psychopathic hitman... and a young guy who got caught up in all of this against his will. Very well written and directed by John Dahl, Red Rock West tells a Coen-like story, but it stays within the confines of a pure American thriller genre movie, without any “artsy” double meanings and allusions that the Coen brothers would have lent to it. Dennis Hopper fits the role of a crazed killer well, but sometimes he is too much of a redneck to be taken seriously. A darker and more dangerous goosebump-inducing killer would have taken the movie up a notch.
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