- Thriller, Crime, Drama
- 112 min
- R
Rotten Tomatoes68%Metacritic53IMDb5.8
This isn't revenge. It's a reckoning.
Lucas Frost, an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence, tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma. He is suddenly pulled back into the family business he so despises when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery on a local scrap yard and an innocent life is caught in the crossfire.
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Martin Oakson TMDB · Jun 20264/10
**Blank bullets in the Ozarks** Lucas Frost is an upstanding man trapped in the shadow of a family clan whose only legacy is drug trafficking and brutality. Desperate to build a peaceful future far from crime, he plans to marry his fiancée, Emma. However, his family plans crumble when his ex-convict cousin, Eli, commits an armed robbery gone wrong, leaving an innocent victim caught in the crossfire. Torn between his sheriff mother's warnings and an unbearable thirst for justice, Lucas turns to his stepbrother, Tuck (Nick Stahl), to hunt down the culprits. "Violent Ends" is a prime example of the narrative apathy that has become so prevalent in contemporary cinema. While we would normally have loved to enjoy a film brimming with lyrical passion in a visceral family conflict, the mediocre Powell delivers a routine and lifeless genre exercise that moves with alarming listlessness. The visually appealing presentation of the scene fails to compensate for a flat script filled with stilted dialogue built on modern crime thriller clichés (a reluctant hero with a sacrificed girlfriend as a mere catalyst against the blood feud), offering absolutely nothing original or even remotely novel. Th
Read the whole review on TMDB - tender_buttkisson TMDB · Dec 20257/10
Violent Ends lives ip to its name. First bit was a bit of slow character development, letting you know who thr characters are and the world they inhabit, but then about half hour in, the movie starts amping up the action. Yes, it does have a pretty predictable ending, but the set up was worth it. All in all, a very enjoyable movie
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Cast
- Billy MagnussenLucas Frost
- Alexandra ShippEmma
- Nick StahlTuck Whitehead
- Kate BurtonDarlene Woodley
- James Badge DaleSid Frost
- Ray McKinnonWalt Frost
- Jared BankensEli Frost
- Nathaniel WoolseyFiddle Frost
- Matt RiedyRay Frost
- Bruce McKinnonDonny Frost
Crew
- John-Michael PowellDirector
- John-Michael PowellWriter
- Elijah GuessDirector of Photography
- Anthony B. WillisOriginal Music Composer
- Vincent SieberProducer
- Undīne BukaProducer
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