Superbly acted and heavy on atmosphere, Mob Land is a revenge thriller posing as something more cerebral
, and there’s even a hint of David Cronenberg’s ultra-violent exploration of good vs evil,Set in a small, drug-addled Deep South town, it’s superbly acted and heavy on atmosphere, delivering a strong sense of the desperation amongst rural folk torn apart by a flailing economy and an unstoppable opioid crisis. But it’s also weighed down by an exhausting devotion to weary genre tropes, even as it acknowledges them.
Shelby is just your regular old struggling-to-get-by drag racer trying to do the best for his loving wife Caroline and daughter Mila . Until one day his reprobate brother-in-law Trey suggests they rob a local place doling out fake OxyContin scripts and raking in the profits. Trey, battling his own addiction, has convinced himself they’ll be doing the local community a favour, as well as making a hundred grand. Greed is obviously the bigger player here, but this is also part of a wider, briefly interesting attempt by Maggio’s script to consider the injustices of rural Americana in a
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