Night Always Comes – Movie Review
First Reaction – Night Always Comes takes way to long to get going.
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Director: Benjamin Caron
Writer: Willy Vlautin, Sarah Conradt (Screenplay)
Cast
- Vanessa Kirby (Fantastic Four First Steps)
- Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)
- Zack Gottsagen (The Peanut Butter Falcon)
- Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk)
- Jennifer Lanier (Chapter Perfect)
Plot: Risking everything to secure a future for herself and her brother, Lynette sets out on a dangerous odyssey, confronting her own dark past over the course of one propulsive night.
Runtime: 1 Hour 48 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Night Always Comes starts when Lynette (Kirby) is struggling to hold her life together, while supporting her bother Kenny (Gottsagen). However, her mother Doreen (Leigh) is causing problems with money, leading to her turn to desperate measures to make ends meet.
Lynette turns to the people she trusts to help her with monetary problems. However, it means stepping over the law and into a criminal underworld to give her family a future.
Verdict on Night Always Comes
Recap
The movie follows a desperate woman who turns to a life of crime to keep a roof over her and her brothers’ heads. However, things spiral out of control, and she is pushed to the limit about how far she will go.
Best Parts
The performances in the movie are good, we see the levels of desperation the characters are going through. Once things get going it is very tense and shows how far the people will go.
Worst Parts
The problems start with how slow the first half an hour is, and it takes a long time before we get into anything tense. It holds too much back too early, and often leaves us wondering what could have been with a tidier trimmed down introduction.
Final Thoughts – Night Always Comes is a painfully slow thriller.
