Hell Or High Water [Blu-ray]

Damn good film. Thank you amazon for recommending this film.

Saw this first on Netflix and multiple viewings never disappointed so decided to add it to my posterity collection .. ha . Somehow brilliant !!

An excellent film shot in the rarely seen on screen rural Texas of high unemployment and the harsh realities of rural life and subsistence existence. The story follows 2 brothers getting their own back against sharp practice by a bank and the struggle to create a future for a bereaved family. I would heartily recommend the DVD to those who seek a modern Western with a twist. The actors are excellent and the plot is carefully revealed, the film is definitely worth seeing.

I'm not always drawn to the Western genre, but a good one will draw me in, and 'Hell or High Water' does fit the bill of a good example. The film follows two brothers (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) who have been, for reasons explained in the film, carrying out a series of armed robberies of banks. Eventually finding a way onto their trail are a veteran lawman (Jeff Bridges) and his partner. Eventually, paths will be crossed but although that's the basic narrative, it's one of those great finds where you can, if you want to, pull much more than that from it. Vast landscapes, people surviving in whatever way they can and making decisions which don't necessarily make them bad, but which have to be reckoned with not nonetheless, coupled with some effective characterisation and great performances, push the film beyond being a run of the mill piece. I found myself really drawn into the characters by the end, and enjoyed it a lot. There's an adequate selection of extras, including a 30 minute Q&A with the director and main cast, featurettes and footage from the premiere in Austin, Texas that all in run around 75 minutes. The featurettes are more interesting than the Q&A but it's an OK package.

its DVD and it works. i'm not a critic so i'm not reviewing the film. i enjoy it.

This is a review of the 4K bluray version of the film Hell or high water is one of the best movies from the last few years. It's a Jeff Bridges movie and how he didn't get an Oscar I'll never know The standard bluray looks like all digitally shot movies. It looks washed out with bland boring colours. The 4K disc is the complete antithesis of the the HD version. Colours are vibrant, accurate and truly beautiful. Now the movie looks like it was shot on celluloid. Isn't it weird that we use a modern technology and use HDR etc to make a movie look like it was shot 75 years ago. The movie itself is marvellous It's cops and robbers of the highest quality. Hell or high water is an essential 4K bluray with a beautiful colour palette and excellent score. Do not miss the 4K bluray but avoid the 1080p bluray.

First the 'pros' excellent cinematography esp on a big screen! interesting plot where two brothers rob the bank that is threatening to foreclose the family farm,Jeff Bridges plays a Texas Ranger on the eve of retirement who pursues them all the way acting OK Pine ditto Ben Foster the one who you are waiting to get whacked,the best bits are the dialogue between Bridges and his Native American partner in which Bridges makes little pops at his skin. The 'cons' well the usual lots of swearing and the constant mumbling Bridges being the main offender. Was going to give it one star but im in a good today(!) maybe needs a second viewing to appreciate it more.

Make a point and see this well made and acted story of bank heists set in the great state of Texas. Jeff Bridges and his partner are Texas rangers , the story starts with a "bang" and the pace rarely slackens . This is a film that in my view once seen will encourage the viewer to want to see again. In short it's a cracker.

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I was dubious about buying this movie - thought it might just be a B show with gratuitous violence-, but needed to because I am fascinated by Jeff Bridges acting styles and the characters he plays- great as usual. It seems so many times though other actors just cannot keep pace with his abilities. Not so with this movie... it is brilliant and the setting incredible. It is a modern version of a really good western... I plan watching this at least one more time. Very good value for the money- My rating is 9.8 out of 10.

Superb film - perfect condition and delivered much more quickly than estimated.

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Manchmal treibt die Verzweiflung seltsame Blüten: Als die beiden Brüder Tanner und Toby Howard erfahren haben, dass sich die Bank demnächst das Grundstück ihrer hoch verschuldet verstorbenen Mutter unter den Nagel reißen will, auf dem sich allerdings einige lohnenswerte Erdölvorkommen befinden, beginnen sie eine Reihe von Banküberfällen, um ausreichend Geld für die Tilgung der Ausstände zusammenzubekommen. Der kurz vor seiner Pensionierung stehende Texas Ranger Hamilton wird jedoch auf die eigentlich recht unbedeutenden Überfälle aufmerksam und heftet sich gemeinsam mit seinem Partner Alberto an die Fersen der beiden Brüder, deren Frist zur Zahlung der Schulden langsam ausläuft. Eine nicht ganz alltägliche Geschichte, ausladend erzählt und mit exzellenten Darstellern (u.a. Jeff Bridges und Ben Foster) besetzt - Zutaten, die schon fast zu klassisch sind, um einen Film für den Mainstream zu generieren, der "Hell or High Water" zum Glück auch absolut nicht sein will. Echte Männer mit all ihren Sorgen und Nöten treffen auf die bittere Realität einer maroden Gesellschaft, die sie zu einer absoluten Gratwanderung zwingt. Dazu gibt es einen herrlichen Soundtrack (Nick Cave!), der dem wunderbaren Neo-Western eine stimmige Note verleiht, die obendrein noch von den Landschaftsaufnahmen aus Texas und Umgebung regelrecht geadelt wird. Es ist ein Streifen mit Ecken und Kanten und aus meiner Sicht der beste der "American Frontier"-Trilogie aus der Feder von Taylor Sheridan. Auch technisch macht der Film eine, für das oft genug stiefmütterlich behandelte, überraschend gute Figur: Das Bild bietet einen hohen Detailgrad, natürliche Farben und passable Schwarzwerte. Die deutsche Tonspur in DTS-HD MA 5.1 kommt recht satt daher, fällt genregemäß aber sehr frontlastig aus und bietet nur selten erwähnenswerte Raumeffekte. Bei den Extras finden sich zahlreiche Einblicke in die Produktion und Konzeption des Filmes, die aber das Rad in Summe nicht neu erfinden. Stilsicher inszenierter Neo-Western, der mit ironischer Authentizität und tollen Darstellern ein dezent klischeebeladenes, aber sicher nicht ganz unwahres, Bild jenes Teiles der USA ins Wohnzimmer zaubert.