In 2014, Argentine writer-director Damian Szifron made a considerable splash with “Wild Tales.” The Oscar-nominated, Almodóvar-produced feature consisted of six escalatingly over-the-top stories th…
track down a mass shooter, is the screen equivalent of a page-turner: a solid investigative procedural that breaks no new ground, but delivers sufficient suspense, character interest, and action in confident fashion. Nonetheless, it’s a curiously impersonal, straight-ahead genre piece for a writer-director who so assertively staked out his terrain as an auteur the last time around. Vertical Entertainment is opening it on 500+ U.S. screens this Friday.
Among street cops initially responding to the emergency is Eleanor Falco . Later, FBI investigator Lammark overhears her speculations about the massacre — while others assume some terrorist organization is involved, she thinks it’s a lone wolf — and is impressed. He figures she’s either got the makings of a good detective, is as messed-up as the perp, or, as it turns out, both.
As police indiscriminately arrest every paranoid malcontent in sight, anxious to quell public pressure, our central trio search for their quarry in more methodical fashion. That frustrates politicians, media and other powers seeking quick results, a situation worsened when there’s a second mass shooting, almost certainly by the same person. The film’s last half hour leaves the city for a wintry countryside where that murderer is in hiding, and their explanatory discontents are revealed.
Nonetheless, the film does work quite well as a procedural thriller, maintaining a tense, haunted atmosphere between peaks of skillfully realized action. Particularly good are scenes in which we know something terrible is about to happen in a mall food court, and a shootout in a chain drugstore — Szifron and cinematographer Javier Julia make the bland brightness of those retail settings crackle with imminent danger.
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