Out of the Furnace : Movie Review


With a few nips and tucks and rewrites, "Out of the Furnace" would have all the ingredients to serve a powerful punch. The writer-director, Scott Cooper, previously helmed the Oscar-nominated 2009 musical drama, "Crazy Heart," while the cast is accomplished from top to bottom, delivering turns that are searing and frequently explosive. The film appears to be leading to a cutting dissection of its sociopolitical and economically ailing climate (the story is set during the 2008 Presidential election), but then wimps out in the third act and settles for the less-ambitious title of seedy vigilante thriller. We've seen all of this before, and better; it is a shame so many commanding performances are at the disposal of a script (co-written by Brad Inglesby) that doesn't hold up its end of the bargain.

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