The
Place Beyond The Pines 10/10
There
will be spoilers for this years old movie. I loved The Place Beyond
The Pines. I don't know why I didn't check it out sooner. It stars
Ryan Gosling who is bae. Eva Mendes who is co-bae. Seriously. This
has just been sitting in my Netflix cue and I have been thinking of
deleting it for no reason. Thank god I didn't because all I thought
this was about was Gosling riding a motorcycle and doing crime with
Mendes as his partner and Bradley Cooper hunting them down like some
bootleg Bonnie & Clyde. I was super wrong. Gosling is Luke
Glanton. He is a motorcycle stuntman that just breezes through towns.
One day he is found by a girl he slept with, Romina Gutierrez played
by Mendes. He drops her off at home and that is that. He ends up
finding out that she had a baby and he is the father. He is upset
that she was going to let him leave town not knowing that he had a
son.
Luke
ends up quitting his stuntman work and needs to find work. He is
offered a job by this guy named Robin played by Ben Mendelsohn. He is
a mechanic and tells Luke that he used to rob banks and that he
should consider it if he wants to get some money for his kid. They do
using his motorcycle to do it and then rolling into the back of a
truck. Luke starts buying stuff for the baby and Romina much to her
new man's anger. His name is Kofi and he is played by the awesome
Mahershala Ali. Luke starts bringing presents, taking pictures with
his wife and kid, and shit gets real when he just shows up and starts
building a crib. Luke smashes Kofi in the head with a wrench and ends
up arrested. Robin doesn't want to help Luke rob anymore banks so he
goes it alone and fucks up.
He
eventually ends up on the run from the police and runs into a house
taking a hostage. He calls Romina and tells her not to tell their son
about him and is then shot by Cooper playing officer Avery Cross.
Cross is shot in the leg as Luke falls out the window and dies from
his wound. Yep! He is gone from the movie. I was shocked. Now shit
starts to get dirty in this movie. Cross is hailed as a hero but he
feels fucking terrible about what he did being a new cop and finding
out that Luke had a son his own kids age. It also doesn't help that
every cop he knows is dirty. Like...all of them. Ray Liotta is one of
his superiors and takes Cross from dinner to go to Morina's house
with no warrant and search it. They take the money Luke left for them
and leave ad split it up. Cross tries to give it back but Romina just
wants him to stay the fuck away from her.
Cross
is still seen as a hero cop but he tries to turn his colleagues in
and even his captain is like “I don't wanna hear none of this
shit!” Cross ends up getting all of them indicted or put into
prison especially after recording one of them telling him the rules
and that he has to be dirty. Years end up passing and Cross is now
divorced and has custody of his son AJ. AJ is a dick and played by
Emory Cohen who I didn't recognize from that movie Brooklyn. He is in
a new school and meets this kid named Jason played by Dane DeHaan.
Turns out that Jason is Luke's baby son all grown up! Neither of them
know the history of their fathers and how their paths crossed.
I'm
gonna stop right there because by this point in the film I was wrong
so many times. I kept on thinking this was going one way and it went
in a far better direction. I loved the look of this movie and really
appreciated the dialogue. The people in this talked like real people.
It never felt like anybody was acting which is always nice. Makes me
forget that I am watching a movie. There were scenes were I was tense
and waiting for shoes to start dropping. God! This was good. Don't go
in expecting some action packed bank heist film. Its just really
damned good.
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