Film 59 - Cold in July

Cold in July - 1st July 2014

The trailer had me intrigued, Mark Kermode's review on 5 Live got me more interested and Clare not feeling up to the cinema convinced me to watch "Cold in July" (It is a film that Clare didn't want to watch)

The first twenty minutes of the film I was hooked.  A lady wakes from her sleep upon hearing a noise in the house, wakes her husband who grabs his gun and goes to investigate.  Accidentally the guns goes off and the intruder is shot dead.  Hailed as a hero to the town, Richard (Micheal C Hall) starts to worry when the father of the dead intruder starts hassling his family and threatening his own young child.

I thought this was going to be like a Cape Fear style film and was really interested to how it was going to turn out.  What I was not expecting was the many genres the film would take.  It went from psychological thriller to comedy to buddy movie to all out action.  I had been warned that this was a director trait and usual for his previous films, but for me it didn't gel as well as it seems to have done for others.  It just seemed messy.

I enjoyed Cold in July, but if the starting genre would have continued then I think I would have enjoyed it more.