Thursday 8 December 2016

Simple crooks lacking narrative hooks

God's Pocket (2014)

Directed by John Slattery this film based on the novel of the same name stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jekins, Christian Hendricks and John Turturro. A small time crook's step son is killed at work leaving him trying to scrape together the cash for a funeral.

While this film has a great cast the material is not especially impressive, this is kind of a Scorsese lite film. The plot has little of interest to say but does have a couple of cool moments. John Slattery's direction is steady but not remarkable.


3/5

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