Some movies can be weird in the sense that they transform quite drastically in the middle of the film, or even shift focus onto new characters while keeping the story all together. One such movie would be Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho, but horror movies like Audition, One Cut of The Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Empty Man and Zach Cregger’s Barbarian are the best examples of such films. And, let us not forget Francis Galluppi’s Western thriller And Action; the Last Stop, Yuma County, which turned out to be really impressive after doing the rounds at various festivals. His festival circuit achievements lasted him all the way to being selected as one of the directors of the subsequent Evil Dead films.
Cummings is joined by actor Jim Cummings (Thunder Road, The Beta Test) who is brilliant in complementing Jocelin Donahue (I Trapped the Devil, Doctor Sleep) and veteran actor Richard Brake, also of Barbarian fame; All three of them are in the new film and try out great different ways to entertain viewers with the quite possible supremely contrasting plot.
This starts off edgy with your favorite and the reliable Jim Cummings doing what he does best now. Selling knives of course. It is also natural to think back on his character from Thunder Road or The Wolf of Snow Hollow whenever one visits a certain part within the film as they find out about the character in “The Last Stop” that surprisingly, sells knives for a living (He doesn’t even get named). But this is but one of many red herrings and smart lies that can be found throughout this charming little neo-Western and in a twist, left us wanting for more until the very last minute.
Some people’s first thought will be 3:10 to Yuma where its title came from which was later remade with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale as the lead. Although Yuma County is set in Arizona too it depicts something telling about quasi-modernity; however everything speaks at once about deliciously retro apocalyptic when a bunch of colorful people stroll into a cafe waiting on a delayed tanker to come cut out their gas station nearby.
Knife salesman (Cummings) enters the dining room as well as a rather unconvincing pair of fugitives, the mute and frightful Beau (Brake) and his more youthful, temperamental assistant, Travis (I care a lot top performer , Nicholas Logan). Throughout the film, Donahue’s performance was good as she portrays various psychological characters.
Faizon Love, a staple character actor in Elf films as Vernon the bad tempered gas station attendant, and stopping over a few times when Jocelin Donahue’s Charlotte is flipping patties at the diner where the action lies. Claire’s husband Charlie, which does not sound good at all (Michael Abbott Jr), is a sheriff of this small midwestern town, meanwhile all the time he is not annoying his well-meaning deputy Gavin (Connor Paolo).
With such colorful characters around why wait for Snoopy – or in other words Pete played by Jon Proudfoot – to come in to start trouble, when Charlotte has already figured out that her restaurant is accommodating more than one criminal for the time being. Shootouts occur and people die but these sequences are best as examples of how tension has been built up so much that only Tarantino-like bursts of violence can relieve it.
For example, there is the dry wit of the sheriff, who seems as thick as any of his constituents, who cannot understand why his wife is so quizzical over the phone and who is at the time stuck in an unfriendly diner and being held at gunpoint by, well, a gunman. Here anything can happen as few other even more insignificant characters come in to complicate matters like those of Beau and Travis, bank thieves, who notice that they are being recognized as the last two criminals who had successfully braced the state with a heist somewhere and got away.
Those people who admire Cummings’ charisma and wit should watch out during the middle part of this film as there are no things to laugh about as the writer of the character is intentionally ignored as there are other issues that need to be addressed in the film. Do not worry: This is not the last time fans will see Cummings anyway. Yes, he is just a film’s star; he’s not involved in the shooting processes of the film — but that is perfectly acceptable. Thes budget of Bonnie and Clyde was spent great ‘and most of it was spent on the cast, and even the cameramen saw it but they did not shoot anything before’, yet again Wright Gibson is his only source at this moment when this place was melting.
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