Regular review – Fargo meets The Firm in Bob Odenkirk’s small-town thriller | Video

Bob Odenkirk continues his new role as an everyman hero in the gonzo drama, written by Odenkirk himself and John Wick creator Derek Kolstad. The director is Ben Wheatley, who shows the same type of gun that was shown its one of the most impressive destruction of Free Fire since 2017.

The place is a very good Fargo-esque place: a small town in Minnesota called Normal where Ulysses, played by Odenkirk, appears as a long-time sheriff, a decent person just filling in after the previous sheriff was found dead in the snow under strange circumstances. Ulysses is depressed and struggling with an alcohol problem after the unexplained violent end of his last job, which led to his separation from his wife.

Everywhere he looks, Ulysses sees a strange, strange, small town, with no crime to solve except for petty neighborhood disputes. His deputy Mike (Billy MacLellan) is a smiling lawman and assistant who is happy that he and his boss have exactly the same mustache. The mayor (Henry Winkler) is satisfied with everything. The bar’s owner Moira (Lena Headey) is a big fan – but she also seems to be content with the good old-fashioned Americanness of the place.

However, something goes terribly wrong: when a bank robbery takes place in a one-horse town, events are set in train that reveal to Ulysses that everything about Normal, like the successful law enforcement in Sydney Pollack’s film The Firm, is based on one, terrible secret that he is about to reveal. It’s a fun and surprising mess, anchored by Odenkirk’s hangdog air of resignation to the violent mess he’s supposed to clean up.