6/23/2023 0 Comments Galveston by Nic PizzolattoJust kidding, he’s yet another of the actor’s signature basket cases a super intense ex-con with a hair-trigger temper, a penchant for violence, and a terminal case of lung cancer. Ben Foster stars as Roy Cady, a light and fun-loving guy with absolutely no demons in his closet whatsoever. Written for the screen by a first-timer named Jim Hammett, “Galveston” drops us into the dirty shallows of the New Orleans underworld circa 1998. If anything, this reheated serving of meat-and-potatoes crime fiction is so to the point and in the moment that it doesn’t even seem to invite any deeper meaning until its unexpected final moments. At a tight 87 minutes, the movie just doesn’t have time to dance around the task at hand. Adapted from a well-received novel of the same name that Pizzolatto wrote prior to his success on premium cable, “Galveston” is draped with all the self-serious despair that looms above the author’s infamous HBO series, but it crucially lacks the same capacity for bullshit. It takes far too long for “ Galveston” to emerge from the novocaine of its various clichés and allow us to feel the tender flesh that bleeds across every scene of this seedy road noir, but - in fairness to director Mélanie Laurent - some filmmakers are never able to break the leathered skin of a Nic Pizzolatto story (see: “True Detective” season two.
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