![]() That said, it’s fair to say that the economy has not been good to Toby and Tanner. I don’t want to give too much away, not for typical spoiler-alert reasons, but because Mackenzie’s story unfolds so perfectly, with one motivation after another revealed, that it’s better to simply enjoy it. They’re up to something specific, but what?Īnd therein lies a story. For another, it isn’t just a cash grab - they take only the smaller, unmarked bills. ![]() ![]() For one thing, they only hit Texas Midland banks. These are rough-and-tumble men, whose closeness is only revealed when they have a couple of beers and wrestle in the front yard.īut Marcus notices enough about the robberies to detect a pattern, and to realize that this isn’t just a random string of robberies. For instance, they drive a different beat-up car to each job, then speed back to their broken-down ranch and bury the vehicle out back. But they get the job done, and they’re smart, in their way, particularly Toby. We see from the first robbery that Toby and Tanner are not especially good at robbing banks, not the actual hands-up-give-me-the-money part (though Tanner seems to enjoy it more than Toby). But the actors, along with director David Mackenzie (“Starred Up”) and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (“Sicario”), infuse it with a contemporary urgency that merges spectacularly and surprisingly well with the bleached-out tumbleweed Texas scenery (though the film was shot in New Mexico).
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