Synopsis
When the law became corrupt, outlaws became heroes.
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
2012 Directed by John Hillcoat
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Shia LaBeouf Tom Hardy Gary Oldman Guy Pearce Jason Clarke Jessica Chastain Mia Wasikowska Dane DeHaan Lew Temple Chris McGarry Tim Tolin Marcus Hester Bill Camp Alex Van Noah Taylor Mark Ashworth Tom Proctor Bruce McKinnon Eric Mendenhall Toni Byrd Robert T. Smith Jake Nash William J. Harrison Joyce Baxter Jeff Braun Malinda Baker Tom Turbiville Chad Randall Terry Keasler Show All…
Benaroya Pictures Yucaipa Films Annapurna Pictures Pie Films Inc. Red Wagon Entertainment Revolt Films Blum Hanson Allen Films
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Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
Metacritic Metascore: 58
IMDB: 7.3
77/100
Release Date: 29 August 2012
Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Budget: $26M
Worldwide Gross: $55.4M
Total Film Awards: 1
Forrest Bondurant: "Jack, look at me. We're survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead. Do you understand? - Do you?"
SYNOPSIS: Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits.
Lawless takes a unique perspective of the prohibition era away from the gangsters of the day to the people that ran the moonshine distilling and distribution businesses behind the scenes and the challenges they faced.…
Lawless, oh Lawless
You may not be so flawless
But I'll be damned if you left me thoughtless
I thought you'd be fun like a party
I got a surprise especially from Hardy
Even Shia pulls his weight, he's not so annoying
Not for a second did he stop me from enjoying
Let's not forget Mia and Gary and Noah oh my
And even Jessica, who still brings a glimmer to my eye
Then of course there's Guy; he stole the show
He is the man, such a fucking pro
John Hillcoat oh Hillcoat, you genius you
The Proposition, The Road, and now this too
I loved it all so i'm curious what's next
When will you give me another…
Things I’m thankful for:
• Tom Hardy's mouth
• Gary Oldman's crazy killer man face
• Jessica Chastain's class
• Mia Wasikowska's smile
• Shia LeBoeuf's tearful eyes
• Tom Hardy's face
• Tom Hardy's bad assery
• Guy Pierce's natural penchant for snobbery
• Tom Hardy's silly hat
Now that I have the bullshit off of my chest, on to a real review…
Lawless is an entertaining film that falls just short of greatness because of uninspired writing and some stupid gimmicks/cheap tricks to get a response out of the audience. However, the positives far outweigh the negatives and I'd say it's definitely worth a watch.
The story is too small and straightforward to be anything but predictable. It's…
The project to rewatch stuff I vaguely remember seeing when I was teenager continues... This time with Nick Cave and John Hillcoat's follow-up to their acclaimed Australian western The Proposition that tries to apply some of the same lyrical savagery of that film to the Prohibition era gangsters of Franklin "Moonshine Capital of the World" County, Virginia. The material itself is written by the real-life grandson of the "indestructible" Bondurant brothers which gives these guys a bit of a romanticized legend quality that LaBeouf, Clarke and Hardy (in peak inaudible grunting form) have to then try and bring back down to the dirty, animalistic world of Al Capone style tommy gun fights, brass knuckle brawls, straight razor throat slashing and…
terrific exploitation refreshingly free of tedious allegory or moralizing. bloody & dirty. tough motherfuckers really are immortal.
Final shootout wasn’t quite satisfying enough (why was Guy Pearce the only one who could aim) but still a really solid movie overall. Also, I know it was based on a true story but I wish they ended the movie at the dinner table instead of following Tom Hardy to the lake where it had to bum us out with the pneumonia death narration.
■ Summary:
✅️ The general theme of this movie comes closer to Peaky Blinders in style, but it goes poorly far away from Killers of the Flower Moon in quality despite similar theme. With an ensemble brotherhood cast including Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, and Jason Clarke, the film showcases contrasting characters that are intensely diverse yet sometimes smoothly violent and fierce as it depicts the real story of the Bondurant Boys . The true story that made the crime/action film seem cinematically foundational in its use of the idea of prohibiting the sale of illegal alcohol, although it lacks some creative directing touches and a better crafted screenplay in a way that seems better than its mere ordinary introductions to…
Safe to say Guy Pearce is still my number one enemy since I declared him the war when I was five and watched Bedtime Stories because I swear ever since then I haven’t seen him play a fucKING SINGLE LIKABLE CHARACTER
"It's not the violence that sets a man apart, alright. Its the distance that he is prepared to go....We're survivors. We control the fear...and without the fear we are all as good as dead."
1931, Franklin, Virginia. Prohibition is the law of the land. The three Bondurant brothers, Forrest, Jack, and Howard are bootleggers that have each been through hell and back in their own way and it created the sense that nothing could hurt them. In their mind and the collective mind of county around them they were indestructible. That is until a corrupt District Attorney and his hired hitman arrive demanding a piece of the cut. Bowing to no one, the Bondurant boys resist ushering in an infamous…