Even styled to look like a skanky barfly, Ryder is too bright behind the eyes to pass as anybody’s fool. Winona Ryder returns to the screen to play one of the parasites, as Franco’s "meth whore" and liaison to a psycho biker gang. Franco would have been a six-second Vine.) To avoid spoilers, let’s just say that "Homefront" is more interested in how cowards and bullies thrive on manipulating each other, and how a strong, decent man like Broker can find himself a victim of their parasitic politics. The trailer seems to promise a showdown between Broker and drug-dealing villain Gator Bodine (or "Gaturr Bow-dine," as James Franco introduces himself), but the film delivers something a lot more tangled and interesting.
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In a movie where every shove, kick and door slam sounds like ten cannons, this patch of humanity is a small victory. The most exciting shots in the movie are subtle glances between Broker and Maddy, communicating in a shorthand that only two people who’ve suffered and survived a colossal loss together could decode. Statham’s discomfort at having to extend the olive branch when he’d rather jam it in the other guy’s windpipe is the film's most suspenseful stunt.įleder also draws a moving and believable father-daughter relationship from the story’s widower-dad cliche. It’s the psychology that counts: We’ve all been there, tested and prodded constantly by some unreasonable, relentless fool who won’t recognize sincere attempts at peacemaking. When Statham puts the poor guy down on the blacktop, a whole gang of greasy losers come looking for trouble.įleder, who is a pretty standard button-masher as an action director, actually shows infectious relish and nuance in depicting Statham’s slow return to his violent ways. When Maddy takes down a schoolyard bully, his mother ( Kate Bosworth), tweaking on meth, pushes her weakling husband (Marcus Hester) to seek revenge. We wait patiently for the local redneck meth-heads to start messing with him, as promised in the movie's trailer.
When the smoke clears, Phil Broker (Statham) is retired, sick of the narc's double-life, and off to a tiny Louisiana town to start fresh with his tween daughter Maddy ( Izabela Vidovic).
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