Following the stellar one-two punch of last year’s Blue Moon and The Lowdown—in which he gave the finest performances in movies and television, respectively—Ethan Hawke has done it again.
The newly minted five-time Oscar nominee gets rugged and ruthless in The Weight, a hard-bitten thriller shouldered by the headliner’s intensity.
With a steely glint in his eye that’s almost as intimidating as his lack of overt expressiveness, Hawke is a severe man of action in Padraic McKinley’s feature debut about a group of convicts tasked with carrying out a dangerous mission in the backwoods of Oregon. Electrifying a taut tale of tough times and the desperate men they breed, the actor makes sure that, even when it could stand to be a tad weightier, this genre film—premiering January 26 at the Sundance Film Festival—packs a wallop.
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