Deadfall by Magnolia

Actors

• Eric Bana
• Kris Kristofferson
• Charlie Hunnam

Format

• AC-3
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• Subtitled

Editorial Review

We're accustomed to Bonnie and Clyde scenarios, but Deadfall has a twist: what happens when Bonnie and Clyde are sister and brother? We meet Addison and Liza (Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde) speeding through a blizzard-in-the-making, having just pulled off a robbery and toting quite a bit of loose cash. Complications will separate these two and send them off on crazy trajectories that lead to the farmhouse of a very nice couple (Sissy Spacek and Kris Kristofferson) on a cozy Thanksgiving afternoon. The coziness will turn to blood, of course, as the violent Addison improvises his way through an extremely awkward domestic scene (Bana is exceptionally frisky as this boundary-trampling psychopath). It's a messy scenario, and includes an ex-con boxer (Charlie Hunnam) and an overmatched police officer (Kate Mara) in the mix. If director Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) were interested in more than getting to the next supercharged action sequence, we might really have something here… but despite the spirited work of Bana and Wilde (their characters are well and truly freaky), Deadfall collapses into a series of snowy chases and shootouts. Once the blood and snow has settled, no amount of quirk can really disguise that. –Robert Horton