Carl Franklin's "One False Move" Blu-ray / 4K UHD - Bill Paxton / Billy Bob Thornton / Cynda Williams @Criterion
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Carl Franklin's "One False Move" Blu-ray / 4K UHD - Bill Paxton / Billy Bob Thornton / Cynda Williams @Criterion
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OUR REVIEW:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film11/blu-ray_review_175/one_false_move_blu-ray.htm
A small-town police chief (Bill Paxton) concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers (coscreenwriter Billy Bob Thornton and Michael Beach) who leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman (Cynda Williams) caught in the middle. The way these desperate lives converge becomes a masterclass in slow-burn tension thanks to the nuanced direction of Carl Franklin, whose haunting film travels a crooked road across America’s most fraught divisions—urban and rural, Black and white—while imbuing noir conventions with a wrenching emotional depth.
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One False Move was Carl Franklin's feature debut, and was voted by critic Gene Siskel as his favorite film of 1992. One False Move was low-budget ($2.5 million), co-written by Billy Bob Thornton, and almost went straight to home video after completion, but as critical exposure traveled in festivals about the film's adept realization and complex themes (race as a corollary to urban/city existence - "Color Me Bad" was an original title) it garnered a deserved theatrical release. The late Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Thornton (who married Williams after the film was made) and Michael Beach are all excellent. I've always loved Franklin's neo-noir work especially Devil in a Blue Dress, High Crimes, and Out of Time that I all find superior. Criterion produce a fine Blu-ray and 4K UHD of Franklin's exceptional debut film. I thoroughly enjoyed this - very strongly recommended!
