Hell or High Water (2016)

1. Hell or High Water (2016) - IMDb

   www.imdb.com/title/tt2582782

   Directed by David Mackenzie. With Dale Dickey, Ben Foster, Chris Pine, William Sterchi. A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to ...

2. This movie might be different than you expect in many different ways. 

   I'm going to actually talk about the movie so  you might not want to read much more other than the fact that this is a very well put together movie worth seeing. 

   
   

   Also, this is a true story adapted for film.

   Here is the part you shouldn't read if you are going to see the film in the future:

   Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine carry this movie in a variety of ways. Bridges plays the part of an old curmugeonly racist towards Indians and Mexicans Texas Ranger close to retirement and Chris Pine plays the Non-criminal brother trying to rob enough banks to not have his mother and father's ranch taken away from his two boys and ex-wife.

   This movie is amazing on a variety of fronts. First of all, weapons are openly carried in Texas including into banks and this makes life very different than in most of the U.S. where this doesn't happen.

   One funny (and almost fatal event) is an old Texan in a bank who is asked if he is armed and he says something like "Of course!" What happens next would be beyond belief in most other places it is somewhat unexpected.

   Then in a later bank robbery several customers are armed and at a certain point at least two armed people who face off with the bank robbers get shot along with one of the robbers. Then the townsmen (who are also armed) follow the robbers in their trucks and SUVs until one of the robbers stops their bullet ridden vehicle and opens up with what looks like a sub machine gun with several automatic clips which drives the men with rifles away with their cars covered with bullet holes. I think it's an AR-15 that U.S. army soldiers sometimes use in battle.

   Underneath all this is the problem right now in Texas of everyone going bankrupt from low oil prices which means most oil workers are either out of work or underpaid presently. So, until oil prices go up (if they ever do again) because of solar and electric cars and wind power, West Texas oil country is basically in it's own deep recession or new Great Depression because of no  or very few jobs in the oil industry.

   So, you see West Texas the way it is right now in a sort of mini-great depression of it's own. So, it is very real and actually happened in real life.