![]() The story is all pressure points and no connective tissue, with big plot turns landing hard and everything in between feeling aimless. Every frame is so unbelievably sweaty you’ll pray for the sprinklers in the theater to go off.Īlso Read: 'Glass' to Stay on Top of Box Office in Quiet Pre-Super Bowl Weekend Knight, who’s written excellent crime thrillers like “Dirty Pretty Things” and “Eastern Promises,” doesn’t bring his usual, rich characters and believable dialogue to “Serenity.” For a long time, it plays like a copy of a copy of a copy of “Body Heat.” The nuance is lost, and only the perspiration remains. ![]() And maybe, just maybe, Baker Dill is the man to do it.Īnd maybe, just maybe, that’s not very interesting. Maybe, just maybe, the world would be better off without Frank. To his credit, Baker Dill rejects her offer, but the more he learns about her husband, Frank (Jason Clarke), the more we realize Frank really is an abusive monster, who brutalizes Karen and Baker Dill’s son, Patrick (Rafael Sayegh). Watch Video: Matthew McConaughey Goes Shirtless Again in 'Serenity' Thriller Trailer So it’s awkward, to say the least, when she arrives on Plymouth Island unexpectedly - and asks Baker Dill to kill her new husband. But although Baker Dill has a sexual arrangement with the well-to-do Constance (Diane Lane), he’s not entirely over his ex-wife, Karen (Anne Hathaway). And no matter how hard he tries, he never catches that danged fish.īaker Dill meanders around Plymouth Island, a small community of salty fishermen and even saltier, stickier trysts. He doesn’t make a lot of money, that Baker Dill. ![]() Matthew McConaughey stars as Baker Dill, a fisherman who’s so obsessed with catching one particular tuna - that tuna’s name is “Justice” - that he pulls a knife on his own customers, just to prevent them from catching it themselves. “There’s some weird stuff going on right now,” and ain’t that the truth in Steven Knight’s “Serenity.” The writer-director of “Locke” returns with a sleazy film noir about attempted murder on an isolated island, but it doesn’t take long before that underwritten, conventional storyline goes in an extremely odd (and extremely questionable) direction.
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