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Lawless

Lawless

  • Status: Released
  • 29-08-2012
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Score: 7.059
  • Vote count: 3187

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.

Shia LaBeouf

Jack Bondurant

Tom Hardy

Forrest Bondurant

Gary Oldman

Floyd Banner

Guy Pearce

Charlie Rakes

Jason Clarke

Howard Bondurant

Jessica Chastain

Maggie Beauford

Mia Wasikowska

Bertha Minnix

Dane DeHaan

Cricket Pate

Lew Temple

Deputy Henry Abshire

Chris McGarry

Danny

Tim Tolin

Mason Wardell

Marcus Hester

Deputy Jeff Richards

Bill Camp

Sheriff Hodges

Alex Van

Tizwell Minnix

Noah Taylor

Gummy Walsh

Mark Ashworth

Hophead #1

Tom Proctor

Hophead #2

Bruce McKinnon

Jimmy Turner

Eric Mendenhall

Spoons Rivard

Toni Byrd

Ida Belle

Robert T. Smith

Young Jack

Jake Nash

Young Forrest

William J. Harrison

Young Howard (as William Harrison)

Joyce Baxter

Aunt Winnie

Jeff Braun

Doctor

Malinda Baker

Young Black Girl

Tom Turbiville

Goon #1

Chad Randall

Mugger #1

Terry Keasler

Mugger #2

Duncan Nicholson

Junior

Ron Clinton Smith

Bootlegger

Anna House

Old Mountain Woman

Ricky Muse

Bootlegger #2

Peter Krulewitch

Stogie Pete

Per Gunnar Jonsson

Well, as the blurb says, Lawless is the true (hmmm ?) story about the Bondurant brothers. This is one of the movies that my dear wife picked up. I had no clue concerning this movie until we watched it. It turned out be an enjoyable movie evening. This is a well done movie indeed although I felt like it could have been an even better movie at the end. Acting, scenery, general story is all quite good. Well the story is okay. It is not exactly ground breaking but rather a standard bootlegging kind of story. The new deputy is a real asshole to the extent of being somewhat unbelievable. Guy Pearce plays the role well though. That goes for the rest of the main cast as well. It is a well-acted movie. It kind of drags on a bit though. The real action where they finally take on the asshole deputy is not until the very end of the movie. Okay, that is perhaps understandable but until then the movie is quite slow. I would not have minded to see both the older Bondurant brothers being a bit more into the action but instead we mostly follow Jack (Shia LaBeouf) on his various more or less silly escapades and romantic adventures which, not very surprisingly, ends up with him leading previously mentioned asshole deputy right to their illegal booze factory…sigh! I am not 100% convinced that you can survive having your throat cut by the way. I think that was rather silly. It is a good movie and of a lot higher quality than most although perhaps not exactly my style of movie and I have to say that I thought the ending, with Forrest blundering into the frozen lake, was rather meh. Still, it is worth 6 out o10 stars but not more as far as I am concerned.