Watching Murray’s wounded doc lurch around grimacing in his effort to make good in the eyes of his wife and father (not in that order) gives the title accidental resonance for viewers.Īrguably, the most exciting turn goes to a foxy, blue vintage Dodge Challenger. Olson and Buckner aren’t sympathetic as the brother villains, but they are more vivid. For quite a spell, Rich’s wife and daughter crouch beneath a workshop table, apparently waiting for the third act. Especially as the film clumsily exploits the grandmother-wife-daughter triumvirate. The movie’s point - that family matters in ways good and evil - doesn’t rate as news. But the (grand)daddy-cop-hero fix we may be hankering for doesn’t much work.
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Returning Willis to his old stomping grounds - with allowances for the slowing of age - is understandable: the movie version of comfort food. The torments about to befall Rich, Frank and their womenfolk are in the name of an overtaxed breed of movie. The movie begins to feel like a country crock.įor the briefest of moments, as the pair trail Rich in the darkness back to the big family house surrounded by woods and fields, the setup stirred memories of the Clutter family of “In Cold Blood.” But that’s hardly fair to that dark, wrenching movie. As Matty slumps further down the seat, Jamie goes looking for someone to repair his brother. That’s the bright signage that beckons the Granger brothers. Rich has been given a second chance at the local Country Clinic. The upstanding guy sits in the kitchen of his parents’ house staring at bankruptcy paperwork, his wife fuming. The bad guys, sitting with a bag of money in the back seat of their car, dig each other. The movie proposes a parallel, more vexed, less pathological relationship between Frank and Rich. Among the ways to glean a movie’s intentions may be not only who’s left standing in the end, but also who receives redemption. There should be a special circle of what-the-heck for filmmakers who inflict sadistic mayhem on minor characters to score pedestrian points about fealty and love. He’s supposed to be the wiser, kinder one how true this is turns out to be one of the movie’s moral hooks.Īn ill-conceived robbery at a convenience store turns brutal and plays up the loose-cannon aspects of the brothers’ relationship. That he has to repeat this fine advice throughout the movie (even as his leg wound looks destined for sepsis) says something about his unhinged bro but also underlines his failure at being a psycho-whisper. “Hey, no killing,” insists Matty (Tyler Jon Olson). It quickly becomes clear that as much as he wants to do right by his big brother, Jamie (Sean Buckner) has impulse-control issues. They’ve left a body in their wake and soon there will be hell to pay.
(The film was produced by Emmet/Furla Oasis Films, the outfit behind the 2008 “Rambo” reboot, “Gotti” and 16 additional paycheck projects for Willis.)īefore flying off the rails, “Survive the Night” screams against them with clichés, as Jamie and Mathias Granger wistfully discuss plans to head for “the border” while looking mighty grimy in their getaway ride. Instead the film harkens to a time before streaming, and certainly long before the virtual theater platforms distributors are employing to connect with moviegoers during the coronavirus crisis, when “straight to video” was nearly an epithet. But not because of Willis’ being cast as a one-time lawman with a family under duress. The on-demand release of “Survive the Night” signals a kind of Throwback Friday. The upright (and self-disgraced) doc can’t catch a break from his judgmental dad and is having an equally hard time mollifying his angry wife. With wife Jan (Lydia Hull) and daughter Riley (Riley Wolfe Rach) in tow, Rich is back living with his sympathetic mom (Jessica Abrams) and a sternly denigrating Frank. Chad Michael Murray plays Rich, who’s in the process of rebuilding his life after a malpractice suit ended his burgeoning medical career. Not long into the action, a grimace becomes the only appropriate response to this try-hard flick, directed by Matt Eskandari and written by Doug Wolfe, about what happens when two brothers on the lam violently enlist the surgical services of Frank’s son. After a run-in with the movie’s two baddies, the retired sheriff will be hurting physically, too. Emotionally, Frank’s estranged from his son. When the actor’s mouth tightens and his eyes squint in “ Survive the Night,” you’d like to think it’s because his character is feeling the pain. It’s almost as much a trademark as his smirk.
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