Posted: August 27, 2015 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Camryn Manheim, Christopher D. Ford, Cop Car, Elias Schwartz, Goodnight Mommy, Hays Wellford, Ich seh, James Freedson-Jackson, Jon Watts, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Lukas Schwartz, Severin Fiala, Shea Wingham, Susanne Wuest, Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz | 755 Comments »
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Warning: SPOILERS
Kids. Can’t live with them. Can’t kill them…or can you? Well, in two new movies with young boys as central characters, infanticide might not be such a bad idea because if you don’t, they might get you first.
Cop Car is a nice, tight little thriller about two pre-teens who are wandering across some wide open spaces common in their part of the country. They seem to have run away for some reason which is never explained (there’s a lot that is never explained in the movie, which is fine, since such explanations are often irrelevant as it is and would only get in the way).
They come upon an abandoned cop car, the sheriff nowhere in sight, find keys in it and, hey, boys being boys, they go joy riding…unaware that there is a body in the trunk.
Okay, I’m sorry, but this is a pretty neat set up for a couple of hours in the theater and the movie does an excellent job of fulfilling all expectations. It’s one of those films that doesn’t really do anything, but in the end, whatever it doesn’t do, it certainly does it rather well. Read the rest of this entry »
