{"id":35243,"date":"2021-05-17T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T04:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35243"},"modified":"2021-05-16T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T22:32:32","slug":"those-who-wish-me-dead-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/17\/those-who-wish-me-dead-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Taylor Sheridan\u2019s \u201cThose Who Wish Me Dead\u201d is a nice, neatly packed vehicle that hearkens back to the simpler thrillers from the 1990\u2019s and doesn\u2019t really demand too much from her. Back in the decade, this movie probably would have been headlined by someone like Ashley Judd or some such. In either case, \u201cThose Who Wish Me Dead\u201d isn\u2019t entirely an original or groundbreaking film, but as a solid and reliable thriller, it works. And it works damn well once it gets moving.<\/p>\n

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Still reeling from the loss of three lives, Hannah is a smoke jumper who’s perched in a watchtower high above the Montana wilderness. She soon encounters Connor, a skittish boy who’s bloodied, traumatized and on the run in the remote forest. As Hannah tries to bring him to safety, she’s unaware of the real dangers to follow: two relentless killers hunting Connor, and a fiery blaze consuming everything in its path.<\/p>\n

Much of \u201cThose Who Wish Me Dead\u201d doesn\u2019t require a ton of set up as the film sinks in to sheer simplicity once the villains of the piece show up, and display sheer ruthlessness. Taylor Sheridan\u2019s film is a hefty throwback to movies like \u201cWitness,\u201d and \u201cA Lonely Place to Die<\/a>\u201d where we\u2019re heavily reliant on a grizzled hero with PTSD who has to overcome personal hurdles. Jolie\u2019s performance is very respectable, and Sheridan evokes a lot from Jolie, whose flawed heroine is engaging. She packs enough trauma and sadness to make her a protagonist we can relate to, and she\u2019s one we also kind of worry about as the high stakes present themselves to her. I spent the last few years completely writing off Angelina Jolie movies for the fact she\u2019s been consistently abysmal.<\/p>\n

But \u201cThose Who Wish Me Dead\u201d is thankfully a return to form for her. Jolie is complimented by a damn good supporting cast that consists of a strong performance by Finn Little, and memorable villain turns by Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult. The movie is stolen, though, by Jon Bernthal and Medina Senghore, the latter of whom becomes an even more engaging and emotionally engrossing heroine once she\u2019s introduced. Senghore is given a ton of great material and dramatic moments to work with (including one excellent scene in a cabin), and she is absolutely outstanding. I was often more emotionally involved with Bernthal and Senghore\u2019s characters more than Jolie\u2019s most of the time. \u201cThose Who Wish Me Dead\u201d is probably the most competent thriller of 2021 so far. It doesn\u2019t break new ground, but it\u2019s a great thriller with a strong cast.<\/p>\n

Now in Theaters and Streaming on HBO Max.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taylor Sheridan\u2019s \u201cThose Who Wish Me Dead\u201d is a nice, neatly packed vehicle that hearkens back to the simpler thrillers from the 1990\u2019s and doesn\u2019t really demand too much from her. Back in the decade, this movie probably would have been headlined by someone like Ashley Judd or some such. In either case, \u201cThose Who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,240,703,2738,1087],"class_list":["post-35243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-crime","tag-mystery","tag-survival-drama","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35245,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243\/revisions\/35245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}