![]() Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, the new 4K restoration taken from the 35 mm original camera negative is exceptional. The way these desperate lives converge becomes a masterclass in slow-burn tension thanks to the nuanced direction of Carl Franklin, whose haunting film travels a crooked road across America’s most fraught divisions-urban and rural, Black and white-while imbuing noir conventions with a wrenching emotional depth. ![]() And an enigmatic woman ( Cynda Williams) caught in the middle. A pair of ruthless drug dealers (cowriter Billy Bob Thornton and Michael Beach) who leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. Region Encoding: 4K region-free blu-ray locked to Region AĪ small-town police chief ( Bill Paxton) concealing an explosive secret. And thanks to the Criterion Collection, hopefully One False Move will find an even wider audience than before with a beautiful new 4K release.ĭiscs: 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Two-disc set One False Move is a fantastic neo-noir with a timeless quality that should be seen and appreciated more widely. This movie is full of brimming tension and is portrayed with the necessary grittiness and honesty that makes it so extremely engaging and effective. Both are terrifying in their respective ways.Īnd one cannot give enough praise to director Carl Franklin’s simple and effective vision for this dark crime thriller that not only portrays a story with a harsh realism, but also deals with the simmering undercurrent of racial division acutely seen in the small Arkansas town and especially between Dixon and Lila. And to their credit, Thorton and Beach both give memorable and unnerving performances in their drastically different roles as the wild, paranoid Ray and the disturbingly calm Pluto. And as the layers of their characters continuously get peeled back, Paxton and Williams inhabit and execute their complexities with utmost impressive performances. ![]() One False Move is a chilling neo-noir bookended by vicious visions of violence, but in the middle, there is also an extreme emotional depth carried out by the complicated characters, especially the characters of Dixon and Lila. In particular, he’s a little too close to Fantasia…or rather the troubled-youth Lila Walker, as she was known to Dixon and everyone when she was growing up in Star City. The big-city veterans expect the trio to come through Dixon’s town on their way to Houston, but as they get closer and closer to making that stop, it seems that Dixon’s a little too close to this case. And not only does this opening set the tone and stakes, but it also displays how daring it is in its structure when we come quickly come to find out that none in the trio are the protagonist of the story, but it is Star City, Arkansas police chief, Dale “Hurricane” Dixon ( Bill Paxton) that we don’t meet until we’re well into the movie.īrought onto the case by LAPD detectives, McFeely ( Earl Billings) and Cole ( Jim Metzler), the small-town cop is an absolute force of nature that is more than over the moon to finally be able to participate in such a big case seldom seen in his small town. And by starting off with what serves as a deeply effective and strong prologue, cowriters Billy Bob Thorton and Michael Breach perfectly set the stage for the kind of brutal movie we’re in for in One False Move.
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