Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson catch criminals, Ben Affleck robs a drug lord, Stanley Tucci fights bats

Three new films from Netflix

Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson are caught by Bonnie and Clyde, Ben Affleck and Oscar Isaac rob drug lords, Stanley Tuchchi fights with bloodthirsty bats. The film critic Yegor Moskvitin talks about the three noticeable Netflix films, which were released in March and April, “In pursuit of Bonnie and Claid”, “Triple border”, “Silence”.

"In pursuit of Bonnie and Clide"

America, mid-30s. Bonnie and Clyde drive around the country, rescue their partners from prison and kill the guards on the roads. Governor Texas Miriam Ferguson (Katie Bates), who recently abolished the Texas rangers , secretly addresses the detective Frank Hamer (Kevin Costner) and asks to save the state of bandits. He goes to visit his drunk former partner Hrani Golt (Woody Harrelson). Having bought a weapon and a roadmap, the elderly go in pursuit of arrows.

Golt and Hamer are not restored in the status of Texas rangers. They are endowed with modest powers and miserable complaints of road patrol trains, which young workers of the FBI newly created constantly laugh at.

This is a “real detective” without esotericism and serial timing - a two -hour production drama about the monotonous exhausting work of two deadly tired hunters for people. There is no chasing Bonnie and Clyde himself in the film either - they are shown for only a few seconds. The rest of the time we see criminals from afar, the eyes of witnesses of crimes (which is why lame Bonnie in a red coat seems to be a real devil). There are also few shootings in the film. Most of the cartridges, the heroes of Costner and Harrelson spend on wastelands, unsuccessfully trying to restore their combat skills.

So, according to the dynamics, “in pursuit of Bonnie and Claid”, even a recent “drug courier” with Clint Eastwood and “old man with a gun” with Robert Redford loses. And the modest two -week film distribution starting at the Texas festival South BY Southwest once again confirms that Netflix films in cinemas are often not a place: few will pay money for watching at home.

But the audience who re -seated to the credits will understand that torment was not in vain. This sleepy drama has a deafening denouement. And the finale immediately puts everything in its place. Family films director John Lee Hankok called Costner and Harrelson (actor from Robin Hood and an actor from “born killers”) not at all in order to once again compose a ballad about Bonnie and Claid. His picture is the deconstruction of two genres at once, without which American cinema is inconceivable.

The first is a saga about noble robbers. The director does not debunk the myth of Bonnie and Clyde, but does not admire them. His position was extremely clear: Bonnie Parker was a cute girl that no one wanted to draw a gun on, and in each shootout it gave Claid Barrow a head start for a couple of seconds. And actually it cost a few policeman life, but millions of Americans did not care.

And the second genre is Baddy Boevik, the story of how two comrades served. It would seem that the police-partners who are looking for evil, who for months share one car and hiking fast food, are direct heirs of wandering knights. But the film convinces that they sacrifice a lot, and hardly one of the spectators will want to be in their place.

In other words, Netflix shot Antikino-a film, after which the stories about brave robbers and noble detectives will only cause skepticism for some time.

"Triple border"

Five former special forces, frightened by impending old age and angry with the fact that the state does not give a damn about them, decide to rob the Colombian drug lord. At stake - almost 200 million dollars, but the robbery will not go according to plan. And the heroes get stuck in the forests of a chopper-froneris, a damned place at the junction of Colombia, Brazil and Peru, which gave the name to the film.

The stars play the five: Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hannem (“Human Child”, “The Sword of King Arthur”), Garrett Hedlund (“Unlivisled”) and Pedro Pascal (“drug”, “Game of Thrones”). The film was shot by Jay Si Chendor - scriptwriter of the drama about the financial crisis "Risk limit." Chandor did not succeed in repeating the success of Denis Vilnev: perhaps there was not enough cruelty and composure, or maybe this is a movie about something else.

The "triple border" is truly revealed in the second half. Once in the estate of the drug lord, the heroes seem to fall into a terrible fairy tale. There is so much money around that they continue and continue to load them into the car, forgetting about a clear plan of action. And at that moment the fresh action movie turns into a mystical thriller about greed. Money bags literally pull the characters to the bottom, the infantile healthy women are desperately rushing around the house. By the way, Roman Vasyanov, an operator who began with the films of Valery Todorovsky and continued his career in Hollywood, skillfully shoots all this.

This moralizing militant of category B was very lucky with actors. And Netflix gradually accustoms to the idea of ​​what luck is the norm. After all, a lot of money, as follows from the film, needs to be easily released - why not on actors of the first magnitude.

"Silence"

A compact family horror, similar simultaneously to the “quiet place” , “bird box” and “darkness” of Stephen King. Kirnan Shipka (“Sabrina's Blinding Soul”) plays a schoolgirl who has lost his hearing after the accident. Classmates laugh behind her, but there is a boy who teaches the language of gestures for her, and also a friendly family who has already mastered it perfectly. This skill becomes an evolutionary advantage when giant bats break out of the caves in the east of the United States - bloodthirsty blind monsters flying to sound. The army cannot cope with them, the country is immersed in chaos, and the family leaves for a car away in the wilderness. From time to time, connecting to the Internet, the heroine discovers that the fellow citizens joyfully sacrifice people to the new gods, organize sects and open a hunt for sinners.

A year ago, Netflix already showed a similar story - in the post -apocalyptic thriller “How it ends”, but this time the service is not interested in racial conflicts, but by clashes of education and the Middle Ages in a modern country. Here, predatory bats who nest on telephone pillars personify the hatred that exists in the media and the Internet - and the immersing society in the digital civil war.

As a film of horror “Silence” is inferior to the “Bird Box”, as a large -scale post -apocalypse - the same “how it ends”, and as a family drama - a “quiet place”. Although the acting work of Kirnan Shipka, Miranda Otto and Stanley Tuchchi decorate the film. But for Netflix, this is an almost perfect picture - it defends the course on inclusiveness. Spectators with weak hearing will accurately appreciate that the actors say the whole film in the language of gestures.

And the film puts heroes in front of a few heavy dilemmas. It is almost clear what to do with your beloved dog, which barks and attracts monsters. But what about my grandmother, if she began to sneeze too loudly?

Egor Moskvitin