Texas Killing Fields (2011)
Starring Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Jessica Chastain
Directed by Ami Canaan Mann
Admittedly, I only watched
Texas Killing Fields because 2011 was the year of Jessica Chastain and I figured I'd give as many movies of hers a shot that I could. Good Lord...not only was this the worst of the five Chastain movies I've seen thus far, but this is one of the worst movies released last year period. Weaving a tale about a series of unsolved murders in Texas City, Texas (apparently based loosely on true events),
Texas Killing Fields focuses on three cops -- Sam Worthington with a sometimes unintelligible mumbling country accent, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a cop with a conscience, and Jessica Chastain as the stereotypical take-no-prisoners tough as nails female officer -- and their investigation into the killings. Along the way, various storylines are thrown at us that have no discernible connections, manage to bog down the movie with a heaviness and emotional emptiness the likes of which I haven't seen in a movie last year, and fail to come together at the conclusion in any satisfying manner.
Director Ami Canaan Mann (daughter of director Michael Mann) is no whiz behind the camera. The film looks alright, but the pacing is so mind-numbingly boring and the movie is so choppily edited that while it seemed to be in chronological order, it very well may have been told in some oddly spliced together manner because, quite frankly, scenes failed to make any sense when placed next to one another.
The RyMickey Rating: D-
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