Movie Details
| Title: | Rebel Ridge | |
| Director: | Jeremy Saulnier | |
| Year: | 2024 | |
| Genre: | Thriller | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 10.26.24 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (4)
- Blue Ruin
- Green Room
- Hold the Dark
- Murder Party
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 10.26.24 | Netflix | I picked this next one. I'm on record here for how much I liked Saulnier's earlier movies Blue Ruin and Green Room. Hold the Dark didn't quite come together (at least not in a festival atmosphere) and his True Detective work sounds like there's drama behind it, but I think he's kind of returning to form with this thriller about a guy who gets hassled by small-town cops. In many ways you could call this First Blood (the first Rambo movie) in 2024 Louisiana. It's not exactly beat for beat but... feels pretty similar! The guy (I'll just call him Rambo because "Black Rambo" doesn't sound right) is some decorated marine with expert hand-to-hand skills, the cops find out who they're messing with and try to clean up their mistake, he camps in the woods and catches fish with his hands. You know, Rambo stuff. The main difference is he doesn't kill anyone. He's a little like... Black Rambo Batman. As someone of my generation who grew up with First Blood: Part Two where dudes take exploding-tipped arrows and literally fly apart into bits of rubber and fake blood, I did find myself wanting a little more come-uppance for the egregious dirty cops who plague Batmbo for literally the whole movie. I'll take what I can get though, which is a super tense paranoid nightmare that you can't guess where it's going to go (mostly). Also, you got Don Johnson as the corrupt police chief and Roy from the Office as one of the dirty cops and Steve Zissis filling in for Macon Blair I guess. The whole movie falls on Aaron Pierre's jacked shoulders though since I think you're with him for almost every shot. He's good though, I totally buy him as Black Rambatmanbo. He exudes 'don't fuck with me' energy which makes you wonder when in the movie he's going to go Tom all Billy Jack on people's ass. He's kinda like a black rambo batman Billy Jack.... Batmambo Jack Similar references aside, I liked this quite a bit. Maybe not as much as Blue Ruin and Green Room but definitely more than Hold the Dark. |
