Review of Let Him Go

Let Him Go (2020)
4/10
Great acting from Costner, lousy from Lane, good direction, a bit stupid script
14 March 2023
It is uneven experience. The first half is a great slow-burner with emphasis on strong minimalistic dialogues, setting the mood for a ride that is darker then even Costner's character predicts. But then the movie starts to be about completely unreasonable grandmother and her husband who is stupidly in love with her and... with all her bad ideas. So the main villain here is... the script - full of stupid people doing stupid things in the name of stupid assumptions. In fact the only reasonable human being here is Costner's character - all others (especially women, sorry) are plainly stupid to the extent of being a parody of a human being. And therefore while watching this, scene after scene I was repeating in my head "noooo, she didn't do it... no way, so f.... stupid, how he will handle this, when he will snap?!". The ending is the peak of this allaround stupidity...

It's a movie for a bedtime - you can start to watch it, and fall asleep without regrets.
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