CUT BANK takes place in the small town of Cut
Bank, Montana,
but the movie is actually filmed in Canada. It revolves around Dwayne
McLaren (Liam
Hemsworth) who hatches a scheme to get himself and his girlfriend (who is up
for the Miss Cut Bank pageant) out of town to move to Los
Angeles. It
starts with videotaping the murder of the local postal carrier (Bruce Dern),
but he isn’t really dead. His scheme
starts to unravel as Derby Milton is on a single minded quest to get the
vintage lunchbox he is waiting for in the mail (but surely the item would be
shipped in a box and not have a postal label attached to the item itself). Dwayne
and Derby
will eventually collide as a local sheriff (John Malkovich) investigates the
murder missing a body. CUT BANK is a
thriller with some humor and it takes place in a mythic version of small town Montana
(I have lived near small towns in Montana
and they aren’t this idyllic like a Norman Rockwell picture mixed with a Cohen
Brothers type movie).
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Audio commentary with Director Matt Shakman and
writer
Roberto Patino
Three deleted scenes show characters like sneak
out through
the bedroom window and the two extended scenes include an extended scene with
Derby Milton and a whiskey bottle I think should have been left in the movie.
BAD KARMA: LIFE IN CUT
BANK is behind-the-scenes featurette that has interviews with Director Matt
Shakman and writer Roberto Patino and it includes plenty bts footage and photos
as they talk about the making of the movie, the story, the characters, and the
casting
Previews for A MOST VIOLENT YEAR. EX MACHINA,
and SON
OF A GUN
FINAL ANALYSIS: CUT BANK is only really good
when it focuses
on Derby Milton (who seems to be the most fleshed out character of the whole
movie) and the mystery to unravel what happened to the mailman. Rent it.
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