Hollywood’s Grim New Beginning
The slow reopening of U.S. cinemas is being led by a mediocre action movie that grossed a mere $4 million in its first weekend. But it’s something.
The pandemic has suspended moviegoing in the U.S. for so long that it makes sense to bring it back with a work as crude as . The first film to get a national release in theaters since mid-March, Derrick Borte’s thriller does not demand much rumination. A frazzled single mom having a bad day honks her horn at a pickup truck; its occupant, played by Russell Crowe, responds by chasing her around the city in a murderous rage. As theaters across the, which is reportedly so complex that even its actors . Perhaps it’s best to think of as a pair of cinematic training wheels.
