“God is a Bullet” (2023)
Darkly grim true life tale.
Boy was I disappointed with this and I have questions, many questions. For example, why are they, they being “Case Hardin” AKA “Headcase” (Maika Monroe) and “Bob Hightower” AKA “Coyote” (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) always driving? Forever driving. Yet whenever trouble lands at their door they are immediately on the remote doorstep of “The Ferryman” (Jamie Foxx) before being instantly thrust back into the fray of a gang of repugnant, truly and utterly recklessly despicable gang of cultists and “followers of the left-hand path”, who may well have horribly kidnapped Bob’s daughter, but are hundreds upon hundreds of miles away? The narrative holes are everywhere and they certainly aren’t plugged by a “desk cowboy” and “seat warmer” suddenly transforming into a heavily tattooed angel of righteous vengeance (body ink courtesy of a one-armed tattooist and a melancholic Jamie Foxx) or his ex cult companion with her own burning desires for revenge too.
I rarely, if ever, take against a film, but this was grim with a capital H for horrible and D for disturbing. Written and directed by New York born Filmmaker Nick Cassavetes (John Q, The Notebook, Alpha Dog) and “based on a true story” via the 1999 novel of the same name written by Boston Teran, a soundtrack including David Bowie and Bob Dylan partially saves this horrible tale that is grimly dark, disturbing and bloodily brutal from the off and rarely lets up for two cinematic hours.
Except when our hero and heroine are driving. Forever driving.
And then it’s deadly dull.
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