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Small Town Crime ** (2017, John Hawkes, Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Anthony Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr, Michael Vartan, Daniel Sunjata, James Lafferty) – Movie Review

John Hawkes stars as alcoholic ex-cop Mike Kendall, who finds the body of a young woman and puts his family in danger when he becomes hell-bent on finding the killer. The trail leads to a whole lot of unsubtle violence and dead bodies in writer-directors Eshom and Ian Nelms’s moderate neo-noir thriller.

The cast is good but they are not really well used, and the Nelmses don’t really find a way to refresh the very familiar, popular genre. It plays like a rather ordinary TV movie pilot for a telly series, which makes for a slightly frustrating cinema experience. Hawkes is okay but not fascinating enough in the big star role.

Also in the ensemble cast are Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Anthony Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr, Michael Vartan, Daniel Sunjata, Dale Dickey, Caity Lotz, Robyn Lively, and James Lafferty.

Netflix acquired the world streaming rights to Small Town Crime.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Movie Review 

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