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Supremacy

Supremacy (2014)

June. 12,2014
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5.7
| Drama Crime

The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.

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Actuakers
2014/06/12

One of my all time favorites.

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Bereamic
2014/06/13

Awesome Movie

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Marva
2014/06/14

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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Jenni Devyn
2014/06/15

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

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robertscholl
2014/06/16

Google Robert Walter Scully Jr. He was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood. One difference was that he used a shotgun in the slaying of a Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff at the traffic stop in the beginning.

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kenklasser
2014/06/17

Spoiler Alert!!! I have a question but it reveals a small item. So if you haven't seen this movie, don't read this review. If you've seen the movie, then you know what I'm talking about if you also noticed it. Or maybe you know the answer? If so how do you know it? Thanks.I thought the movie was great. A basic plot line yet done right. It's gripping and thought-provoking, and leaves you just sort of pondering - it sticks with you. I only had one complaint, a loose end as it were - and here's the spoiler: What happened to Anthony? The last we hear is when Odessa is on the phone and then says that he's dying and she's going to go to him. But they never follow up. Did he die? Or did he recover? That strikes me as an important point that they never return to.

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cassierook
2014/06/18

I think the most important thing is to first off, commend Joe Anderson - an actor who deserves far more recognition than he has been given in his long standing career; Tully is the film's inordinate saving grace, and it is not thanks to any brilliant script writing or cinematography, he brought both vulnerability and unexpected humanity to a character that would otherwise have fallen flatly into the 'bad ex-con' category.Tully, in the final scene, and in momentary glimpses throughout the film, provides the film with its emotional strength; you cannot look away from him - Anderson is pure pent-up energy, raw emotion.Regrettably, the film does not take his character as far as it needed to - Supremacy is a thing of enormous potential, it could be extraordinary. But, it is not. Tully, in the end, only has a brief moment of redemptive vulnerability, the moments in between are not enough. There was potential within the frame of the script to accelerate further, to shake the moral boundaries - I was hoping not to see another 'and then the bad guys get punished, the end' - I wanted this film to make me question what makes a person bad, if that exists at all, I wanted to feel more for Tully.That's not to say that Joe Anderson is not sympathetic in the role. But I'm uncertain how much of that was his strength as an actor, versus the filmmaker's intention - I'm guessing that it's pretty much all on Joe.The ending ought to have been left, at the very least, ambiguous. For a character to alter, and then be given the death penalty regardless - off screen, as a footnote - erases the work of the actor and the filmmaker; in the end, he is punished, karma/the law happens etc. Yes, it's based on a true story, but it's still a narrative film - that's no excuse. The ending diminishes Anderson's strikingly childlike performance in the last scene - he takes the thunder from Glover altogether, we care about Tully (or would, if the character arc had been more pronounced), ending it on a footnote is lazy script writing.To conclude, I did enjoy the film, it was well made, there were moments when the cinematography was lovely to look at. I wish that they had hired another writer, however, because the potential of the film was probably greater than the film itself.

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timlin-4
2014/06/19

While the characters are well developed, this movie's attempts at creating drama or delivering a message fail. Anderson energetically plays his character like Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad, Glover whispers powerfully like Don Corleone, and Olivieri has the most interesting performance that resembles one of Toni Collette's neurotic characters. But the actions of the characters don't really make any sense, they are crudely forced into the story, unnaturally animated like puppets. Even more unforgivable, the movie skips ahead some minutes past a key scene so that it can be revealed later through a flashback. This is so infuriating I had to adjust my rating even lower as I wrote this. And of course the ending was not any better, some intensity is conveyed, but it's contrived and basically silly.

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