A brutal blend of modern-day Western and hard-boiled noir, this twisty crime thriller stars Patrick Wilson as a newly arrived small-town Arizona sheriff
A brutal blend of modern-day Western and hard-boiled noir, this twisty crime thriller stars Patrick Wilson as a newly arrived small-town Arizona sheriff.
He goes up against a relentless cartel hitman (John Leguizamo) after stumbling upon an ammunition smuggling ring on the US-Mexico border (the film's first surprise is that, thanks to lax US gun control, it is Americans smuggling bullets into Mexico).
Article continues belowThe convoluted plot draws in so many characters - including Jim Belushi's shifty car salesman and the sheriff's weary ex, played by Lynn Collins - that the action sometimes goes off the boil, but Wilson makes a rugged hero, while Ian McShane is enjoyably ripe as the grizzled, whisky-swigging, morally compromised former sheriff he is replacing.
Brace yourself, though. Both of them really do get put through a bloody wringer before the end.
