Nash Edgerton
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Directed by Peter Jackson
influenced Gringo (2018)
Dialogue
It’s reminiscent of the line in “The Fellowship Of The Ring,” where Saruman says to Gandalf, “The friendship of Saruman is not lightly thrown aside.”
The cast has a great good time — Oyelowo, playing a stooge who slowly gets wise over the course of the film, has a chance to loosen up after playing Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma,” and Copley (“District 9,” “Chappie”) is a most engaging wild card, since you don’t know whether his character will follow his murderous or helpful impulses and neither does he.
We also have a former hired killer (“District 9” star Sharlto Copley) and two inept American drug smugglers (Amanda Seyfried, Harry Treadaway), all of whom cross paths with Harold’s increasingly daft adventures.
But as pure comic-action pulp, it at least avoids getting into the scummier regions that such earlier tales of nefarious doings south of the border like Oliver Stone’s “Savages” or Ridley Scott’s “The Counsellor” descended to.
“Gringo” plays a little like a Coen brothers movie without the sense of cosmic jest, or a Steven Soderbergh confection like last year’s “Logan Lucky,” but without Soderbergh’s generosity toward his characters.
The Gift marks the directorial debut of Joel Edgerton who had written several screenplays (Felony, The Square) but was still waiting for a project that would make a great directorial debut.
As a founder of Australia's Blue Tongue Film Collective, writer/director/star Joel Edgerton wrote the twisty thriller "The Square," directed by his brother Nash.
Aussie sibs Nash and Joel Edgerton have been badass cinema staples ever since their profoundly wicked thriller The Square blew everyone’s mind at Austin’s Fantastic Fest 2008.
Before becoming a rising Hollywood star, Joel Edgerton worked with his brother Nash in their native Australia on the delightfully nasty 2008 thriller The Square, which Joel wrote and produced and starred in (Nash directed).
Edgerton, whose writing credits include the tight Aussie thrillers “The Rover” and “The Square,” ratchets up the tension without really ramping up the suspense.
Edgerton, a screenwriter for “The Square” and “Felony” and actor in “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Rover,” has made a slick, smart, modestly scaled suspense drama that initially suggests a “Fatal Attraction”-style Hollywood thriller.
And if you haven’t seen “Hardcore Henry,” I will not accept you raising an eyebrow at my including Sharlto Copley as part of a “good cast.”