Hurricane is hepped-up and convivial-a good ol’ boy whose boisterous streak masks a gnawing discomfort. The script doesn’t have the breadth to do justice to its most interesting character, the Arkansas sheriff nicknamed Hurricane (Bill Paxton). ![]() This no-nonsense quality is also a key to the film’s limitations. There are a few too many cornball motifs, like the ominous whippoorwill that presages a character’s death near the end, but for the most part the action is effective and no-nonsense. He has a good feeling for how to build tension: One sequence, in particular, when the trio is stopped in their car by a Houston cop, has a you-can-hear-a-pin-drop suspense. Director Carl Franklin, working from a script by Thornton and Tom Epperson, is trying for a Jim Thompson effect-film noir with heat and dust. cops Dud (Jim Metzler) and McFeely (Earl Billings), wends its way through Houston and, finally, Fantasia’s hometown, Star City, Ark.įor most of the way, “One False Move” (rated R for strong violence, drug content and language) is taut and sure-footed. Their escape from the law, represented by L.A. ![]() ![]() Pluto (Michael Beach), a black ex-con with a genius IQ, is the group’s tactician his white-trash ex-con-mate Ray (Billy Bob Thornton) is the strong-arm his black girlfriend Fantasia (Cynda Williams) is the small-time Arkansas beauty who came to Hollywood to be a star and ended up a coked-out, third-rate moll. If you are thirsting for an evening’s light entertainment, be forewarned: “One False Move” (Park Theatre) opens with the massacre of an innocent family in South-Central L.A.
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