![]() More could be made of Hannah’s competence at her job, and more could be made of the smoke jumpers’ special capabilities and skills, for audience members who aren’t aware of it. There are several effective action sequences, the best showing the terrifying way that fires actually run, and pick up speed, particularly on slopes of land, sending Hannah and Connor running for their lives. It's important information, which will come in handy later. Allison "runs a survival school," but that information comes in a throwaway line-so quick you might miss it. They could carry their own movie, these two. Ethan and Allison are a fascinating pair, and their dynamic is so intriguing it rivals what's going on with Hannah and Connor out in the forest. But the film is very busy leaping around to other events and other characters, like Owen's brother-in-law Ethan ( Jon Bernthal) and Ethan's pregnant wife Allison ( Medina Senghore), wondering why Owen and Connor haven't shown up. She thinks she might have a chance at redemption: Connor is around the age of the boys who died in the fire. The relationship that develops between Hannah and the child has a lot of potential. He does, when he comes across Hannah, isolated in the fire tower in the middle of nowhere. During the breakneck journey, young Connor ends up in the middle of the Montana woods, scared and alone, desperate to find help. They figure out (somehow) that Owen is probably headed to the wilds of Montana to hide out with his brother-in-law, and they follow in hot pursuit. Played by Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult, they are as relentless and inhuman a force as the forest fire they start deliberately for reasons which are unclear to the extreme. A more cold-blooded duo than this pair of clean-cut murderers can barely be imagined. A "forensic accountant" named Owen ( Jake Weber) flees Florida with his young son Connor ( Finn Little), when he realizes that "bad guys" want to kill him for uncovering shady political finances in his work for the District Attorney. ![]() The inciting event of "Those Who Wish Me Dead" takes place far away from the forest in question. The movie feels like a throwback to the disaster films of the 1970s, like " The Poseidon Adventure" or "Towering Inferno," where character development is cursory at best, since the main game is the disaster unfolding around the characters. "Those Who Wish Me Dead," directed by Taylor Sheridan, whose screenplays for " Sicario" and " Hell or High Water" show his gift for mixing taut thrillers with complex character studies, gives us the bare bones of Hannah's "issues." But the film leaps around so much, working to incorporate multiple narratives, including a massive forest fire, and tossing it all together inhibits the kind of emotions a film like "Those Who Wish Me Dead" requires. She is drawn to playing broken people who find their resilience. She's tough but wild, strong but vulnerable. This is the shit I've been talking about This is the shit that been said Niggas ain't chasing they dreams They've just been after my head All of my demons keep telling me don't you react This'll get you a felony Work on your balance and I'm talking chemically Call up my shooter and aim at your melony I do not swim in no pool full of jealousy Take out the sheriff then body the deputy Sick to my stomach, my money the remedy I am the legend, don't fuck up my legacy Private numbers.This is all potentially interesting stuff, and it's right in Jolie's wheelhouse. They want me dead or alive They want me dead or alive I'm just trying to survive You niggas falling behind You never crossing my mind Put that shit on my life They want me dead They want me dead Put that price on my head
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