A Single Shot

A Single Shot (2013)

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R - 116 min - Crime, Drama, Thriller - 25 April 2013
Big Blue Sky Rating : 5.9/10

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Director : David M. Rosenthal
Writers : Matthew F. Jones
Stars : Sam Rockwell, Jeffrey Wright, Kelly Reilly, Jason Isaacs

The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

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Which is actually more than enough in this case. I did not read the source material to this, but I did have the pleasure of watching this at the Berlin Internationl Festival. Sam Rockwell himself would have attended, but due to the storm having a party in America, he couldn't make the flight. While that bad, because it'd been awesome to see him up and close, it was also a relief, because he's just larger than life (one of the greatest actors of his generation is more than an apt description of him).

He does prove it in this movie too, which is much darker than I had expected. But he has a lot of help coming from the rest of the cast (great people involved here) and the script of course. As mentioned, I couldn't tell you the differences between the movie and the book. But the director did a great job here and I can only recommend this (not only because of the powerhouse performance by Sam)

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