The Weight

Edgar4.0

Ethan Hawke accidentally gets too important at work

Kit Lazer4.5

I knew nothing about this going in (the only way to do it) but if you had told me it was Sorcerer meets Cool Hand Luke but with an Ethan Hawke father-daughter twist I wouldn’t have been able to believe you. The audience was viscerally feeling every bone-crunching beat. A true throwback tale with a director-editor and a composer-writer, people putting their heart and soul into flawed characters you nonetheless wanna grow up to be. Loved it. Rockstar shit.

pirateneckbeard3.5

So I am glad that they stayed away from using "The Band" song of same title cause really this really crosses a different bridge. Speaking about bridges, that was probably my most hated moment in the film. Honestly for how smart Murphy(Ethan Hawke) is suppost to be, that is the worst way to traverse any goods of necessity over a rikety bridge... Just make a rope bridge for the goods and shuffle them across using the bridge structure rather than what they do. That be said I enjoyed this film as a procedural as improper prisoners trying to labour themselves out of the poorness that society forced them into. It has tense moments and smart elements of questioning trust that make this material engaging and feel like it's worth checking out. So if you don't mind taking on some heavy material then it's worth.... the weight;)