The Escape of Prisoner 614 (2018)

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It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The film takes place in 1969. Two mediocre deputies who are not quite dumb and dumber are terminated from their employment for a lack of crime in their community. When prisoner 614 escapes from the Adirondack prison facility, they get the ideal if they apprehend the prisoner, they will get their job back. Ron Perlman plays the hard nosed sheriff who fired the deputies. The film is a quirky light comedy. The deputies are inept and the sheriff is a stereotypical right winger. Note everyone smokes. I liked the old Lucky Strike pack. Guide: no sex or nudity. Don't recall any F-words.

REVIEW - THE ESCAPE OF PRISONER 614I've been meaning to watch this film for a while and finally got around to doing so. I saw the trailer while waiting for another movie to start and I must admit I was very pleasantly surprised. The trailer makes the film seem to be one genre of film but upon watching the film itself you quickly realise that it's actually both, again I'm not going to give too much away, but needless to say I thoroughly enjoyed this. It's slow, as its set in a small town where nothing ever happens, this fact is true to the whole essence of the story, the film and the location. Personally I really enjoyed this but I'm aware that others may not. Acting is excellent, story excellent, just an interesting bit of fun for a Sunday evening. Rating 8 out of 10

This movie must have been funded by tobacco companies. The dude's are lighting up in virtually every scene. Jeez, enough with the cigarette smoke already. Why does Hollywood continue with this when the coolness of smoking has been dead twenty years? Beats me, but Hollywood sure still loves it. I guess they will continue to love it as long as the bucks from tobacco companies keep rolling in. Hollywood continues to be so phony and out of tune, it's really irritating. The Marlboro man would have been in the front row watching this if he wouldn't have croaked from lung cancer. If it wasn't for the ridiculous inhaling of fumes, I would probably have given this a 4 (cause the acting wasn't bad when they were acting and not smoking) but with all the unimaginative tobacco partaking, I lowered it to a 1. Guess now after watching this cloud of carcinogens movie, I need to head over to the local liquor store and grab me a pack of smokes.

Ugh.........................................................................................................