Hell or High Water

2016 Directed by David Mackenzie

Blood always follows money.

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

Jeff Bridges Chris Pine Ben Foster Gil Birmingham Marin Ireland Kevin Rankin Dale Dickey William Sterchi Kristen Berg Katy Mixon Buck Taylor Keith Meriweather Amber Midthunder Jackamoe Buzzell Joe Berryman Taylor Sheridan Howard Ferguson Jr. Debrianna Mansini Paul Howard Smith Nathaniel Augustson Ariel Holmes Marie A. Kohl Jim Burleson Gregory Cruz Melanie Papalia Kim Gleason Alma Sisneros Margaret Bowman Ivan Brutsche Show All…

Alternative Titles

Земля команчів, Sin nada que perder, Nada que perder

crime western

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Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★★ 79

Hell or High Water might be the most adult film I've seen this decade. No gimmicks. No juvenile tendencies. No bull. No cheap shots. It's a Deep Fried Wild West Western Texas Noir, filmed in New Mexico, but it's Texas to the bone.
Jeff Bridges is the cop. Chris Pine is the robber. However, they're both duel-protagonists. The outlaw in me wanted Mr Pine to win the duel. While my conscience cheered on Mr Bridges. Both, have polar opposite partners. Pine's is his brother, played by Ben Foster. While Bridges' is his Native-American Texas Ranger partner portrayed by Gil Birmingham. Some of the most realistic dialogue I've heard on the screen comes from the back and forth banter from each…
Review by Lulu ★★½ 9

jeff bridges in this sounds like he swallowed ten tiny tom hardys and gained their combined mumbling powers
Review by Matt Singer ★★★★ 7

I needed this movie. A reminder thrillers don’t have to be dumb, and smart movies don’t have to be boring.
Full review at ScreenCrush.
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 5

72/100
With an overwhelming, potent sense of finality, Hell or High Water weaves its landscape and characters together, each contributing to the desolation of this modern western revamp. It was a funnier, gentler, more assured movie than I was expecting, with the comedy - frenzied mistake after mistake - sharpening little moments of action and humanity. It's a zombie apocalypse picture, the roaming undead replaced by living survivors of circumstance, poverty, and lifestyle, but it's also mournful of the figures who wander the tired plains and fields. A solid little firework crime thriller interested more in the aftermath of pops and crackles than in the rattling fury of explosions.
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★ 10

uh sorry but can someone explain to me why this film’s score has mysteriously vanished off the face of apple music? exactly WHAT am i supposed to listen to now? some hans zimmer? fuckin john williams? like no disrespect but sometimes i don’t wanna listen to a beautiful piano alright sometimes a bitch wants to manifest the sounds of the violent american south. Now fix it steve jobs or I will rob ur grave
Review by Frandi Peralta ★★★★½ 5

Chris Pine and Ben Foster are freaking amazing in this film. This is my fourth time watching this film, and it just keeps getting better the more that I watch it. Excellent direction by David Mackenzie and perfect cinematography by Giles Nuttgens. I wish more films like this would be made. One of my favorites films of 2016.
Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 5

cowboy shit. remember feeling a bit hung up on some of the broad sentimentality and underlined Themes the last time i watched this but there's just something so disarmingly old-fashioned and economical about it that's really stuck with me. mackenzie has a good sense of rhythm and suspense; the dual-hangout structure lulls you into a sense of quaint community charm but then it layers in the socio-economic periphery detail so that when the two POVs collide into each other head first in an abrupt, brutal portrait of outmoded men doomed to put each other in the ground before making a dent in their surroundings it feels sudden and painful and entirely inevitable. (really struck this time especially by how much…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 27

it's fine.
(but getting a littttttle sick of "Crazy" Ben Foster)
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★ 1

theoretically yes i could have put on a traditional halloween movie. but what’s scarier than an unhinged ben foster in plastic dad sunglasses
Review by Evan ★★★★½ 4

Aside from True Grit, this is Jeff Bridges' best performance since The Dude himself in The Big Lebowski. All the performances are brilliant. The banter between characters is superb thanks to the great chemistry between Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham as well as Ben Foster and Chris Pine. I was pleasantly surprised how funny Hell or High Water actually is. There are so many one liners that had me laughing through out the entire film.
Hell or High Water is a heist/western film that doesn't have an over abundance of gun fights or car chases, nor does it need it. Instead it's well-crafted film with great characters and great character development and story that will have you invested from start…
Review by Travis Lytle ★★★★ 8

A neo-Western whose plot would be as at home taking place in 1860 as it is in unfolding its contemporary setting, David Mackenzie's "Hell or High Water" is a rich, near-mesmerizing story of outlaws and the open range. Acted with layers, shot with beauty, and told with skill, the film is both a reverent throwback and an electrifying look into the future of one of cinema's great genres.
"Hell or High Water," built around two small-time bank robbers, follows men who are a step out of time in a landscape that can nurture them or destroy. The criminals, outlaws in a modern age and directed by contemporary needs, hold to a code of honor explored subtly by the film's narrative…
Review by Tao A ★★★★★ 10

Texas is my favorite genre.

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Solid one. I loved the writing & acting in this especially. Few if any out of place moments. Felt authentic to me. Maybe could have expanded the music budget a touch.
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“Justice isn’t a crime”
Review by Sammy ★★★★

Didn’t enjoy it as much as Wind River, BUT, I still thought it was incredibly well made.
From Taylor Sheridan’s writing to the cinematography to the comprehensible story. From exploring a different area of America than we’re used to in blockbusters to the excellent cast that embodies realistic and grounded characters. Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine were the highlights for me, and they were always interesting to watch on screen.
Problems? Pacing wasn’t as sharp in my opinion; sometimes it felt like my interest was struggling. Some of the characterisation from Ben Foster’s character went a bit too far for me.
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Review by fcho ★★★★

Tremendous script and acting.
Review by bellamy ★★★★

Me and Zoë whenever Hell or High Water (2016) is mentioned:
“Hey, remember that scene where-“
“-where Chris Pine is lying down all sad while his brother has sex in the bed next to him?!”
“Yeah!!!!”
Review by Jack ★★★★★

a perfect movie
Review by Sean O’Hare ★★★★

This was such an easy watch. Between the score, the acting, the accents, and smooth pace there was nothing to be desired from a script that probably wasn’t as good as it seems. My favorite Chris Pine performance so far and Jeff Bridges was born for roles like this.
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