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Watch the rugged first trailer for Hell or High Water

15 Aug 2016

Words by Manuela Lazic

Ben Foster and Chris Pine play bank robbing brothers in David Mackenzie’s gritty neo-western.

Following his critically-acclaimed prison drama, Starred Up, British director David Mackenzie returns with a similarly gritty heist thriller, Hell or High Water. Trading barred walls for Texan plains, the film follows two brothers (Ben Foster and Chris Pine) as they embark on a desperate spree of bank robberies to save their family farm. Jeff Bridges co-stars as the wily, wolf-howling ranger on their tail.

The actor and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, best known for his work on Sicario and TV’s Sons of Anarchy, constructs a complex portrait of a family offset by crime, dysfunction and loss. A sentimental vignette of the unbreakable bond between brothers and the frailty of smalltown USA, Hell or High Water promises plenty action and slick neo-western thrills but is above all an ode to protecting one’s own flock at any cost. Watch the bullet-filled hustle and bustle unfold above and let us know what you think at @LWLies

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