Lawless (2012)'s comments - page 2

Do you want to let us know what you think? Just login, after which you will be redirected back here and you can leave your comments.

Christian Powell

Can they go ahead and change the title on this movie. I do like the old title better though. This movie was awesome though. Tom Hardy is the best character in the movie. Shia's not annoying (didn't know that was possible.)

11 years 8 months ago

BadFluffy

Predictable, over the top gangster movie with paper thin "characters" and really really mean villains. What's new?

11 years 4 months ago

devilsadvocado

What a terribly made "good" movie.

How could a film have so many good things going for it at the same time be riddled with so many mistakes? The setting, underlying story, aesthetics, and atmosphere were fantastic and yet the plot so unforgivably disjointed, there are only three possible explanations:

1. Lawless was made by two different directors taking turns, one bad and one good.

2. The credited director John Hillcoat decided to sleep through or get incredibly wasted during the entire editing process.

3. A shit load of footage was lost in a terrible fire and the makers had no choice but to work with what they had.

Still, more entertaining than 95% of the movies coming out. Wasn't as good as 3:10 to Yuma or American Gangster or True Grit, but it potentially could have been much better than all of those.

On a final note: If I could get my hands on some of those wardrobe pieces and somehow pull them off in public, I think I would finally feel content in my attire.

11 years 7 months ago

IMayNotBeKloot

A nice vehicle for Tom Hardy to act tough and say tough things. Yeah, yeah, no.

11 years 7 months ago

icheckmoviesaccount

Is this whole page broken? Comments don't save and the old title doesn't show up in the search.

11 years 7 months ago

MrDoog

Really disappointed in this movie. I promised myself I would put my hatred of Shia whatshisface aside and give it a chance but true to form he was incredibly annoying and it took some amount of self restraint not to chuck the remote at the tv.

That annoying twerp aside, there were several things wrong with this film.
The casting seemed off, choosing three pretty boys to play southern mountain yahoos looked out of place. Guy Pearce looked like a baddie out of a Disney movie and Gary Oldman was underused.
The editing seemed wrong and gave the whole movie a feeling of being disjointed.

My biggest problem with the film was that much like Tom Hardy's performance, the whole thing felt too restrained, almost as if the director was keeping it on a leash lest it turn into a quality entertaining movie.

Would certainly not recommend.

11 years 4 months ago