Texas Killing Fields: Venice Film Review

This police procedural has grown dominated by adult programs throughout the world in recent years, and even though Stuart Dryburgh 35mm film The Killing Fields is the most prestigious theaters in Texas, the overall consumption of the area long ago familiar with the CIS and its many variants and offshoots. Just OK, another long-Ami Canaan Mann away from - the daughter of Michael Mann, credited with two producers here - and the most recent trip Avatar and Clash of the Titans ", Sam Worthington, the film will definitely get much more visibility than the His predecessor, Morningstar, indie, which made little impact on the whole a decade ago.

A bit 'generous, effective competition section of Venice, was designed only for a U.S. release in early October. Despite the presence of some of the biggest names at the top of the cast as it is currently around Jessica Chastain, drama evenly pace seems more like a small screen to the proposal.

Script by Donald F. Ferraroni 's chopped follow a long tradition in the following two corresponding members, because they go to their work of Brian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is a rough, husky, religiously devout, New Yorker, a father who has moved to South Texas, after one of his cases went wrong. Still adjusting to the new environment, which will be directed through the streets of the world, local young Mike (Worthington), a younger man is not very far from a colleague Pam (Chastain). Brian and Mike investigates the murder of a prostitute, and the disappearance of another young woman, leading them to limit their patch of wetlands along infamous, mysterious region known as the "Killing Fields".

Texas Killing Fields: Venice Film Review


While the film's characters and stories are fictional, they are, opening titles dutifully informed us, "Inspired by real events." The Killing Fields is truly a place where the bodies were dumped in more than 40 years, although they are generally accepted to be the work of different killers. Clearly, there is rich material for a big screen treatment, but Mann and Ferrarone error by devoting so much screen time to a potential victim.

At school age, Ann (Chloë Grace Moretz) lives with her drug-addicted mother Lucy (Sheryl Lee) in a shady oceanfront cottage, a very dangerous and inappropriate for an innocent man, an intelligent child who, like Mike and Brian do deserve a better future possibility.

Ann is repeatedly placed in unsafe situations, more than ever a real thriller, quite realized. Mann, Brian and Mike scans the patient, sometimes off - the rules of detective work, and sometimes violent, heavy action series, it has raised, in particular the effective use of propulsive, sometimes a little ' Claire Denis' Score eccentric member Dickon Hinchliffe. For more information about the musical form of folk-rock flavored with South Americans to help improve the atmosphere of the project, as a man in a rival Venice Killer Joe, was shot entirely in Louisiana, scout Jimmy Trotter to dig up some embryonic Marsh appropriately spooky.

But despite the wealth of background details as Texas death camps falls desperately short in terms of plot development and characterization. Worthington, Morgan Chastain and provide further evidence that are essentially character of the players instead of movie stars emerging, while Britain's Stephen Graham thief scene gives little disappointing to chew as a suspect claim. Moretz small, however, proves once again that false thin shoulders can cope with all kinds of heavy work.

Location: Venice Film Festival (Competition)

Production Company: Anchor Bay Films

Starring: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jessica Chastain

Director: Ami Canaan Mann

Writer: Donald F. Ferraroni

Producers: Michael Jaffe, Michael Mann

Executive producers Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Justin Thompson, Anthony JA Bryan, Jr., Ethan Smith, John Friedberg, Michael Ohoven

Director of photography Stuart Dryburgh

Production Designer: Aran Reo Mann

Music: Dickon Hinchliffe

Editors: Cindy Mollo

Sales: QED International, in Los Angeles

Rated R, 105 minutes