Matt Dillon

Willem Dafoe

Neal McDonough

Amy Smart

Christopher Rodriguez Marquette

Don Yesso

Kevin Chapman

Bill Duke

Tom Berenger

Christopher Denham

Alex Solowitz

John Edward Lee

Ritchie Montgomery

Frederick Weller

Patrick Brinker

Jeff Leaf

Pat Fisher

Ronn Surels

Chris Brinker

Danny Epper

Ron Yuan

Jonathan Hirschbein

Scott Einbinder

John Fee

Jeff Danna

Michael J. Duthie

Diego Daniel Pardo

Tom Lisowski

Sean Halloran

Tristan Warren

Shareen Chehade

Tiaka Hurst

Nancy Green-Keyes

Monique Champagne

Scotty Morris

Kizzie Autumn Martin

Mary E. McLeod

Jonah Loop

Kim Collea

David Goodwin

Matthew Rhodes

Danielle Poret

Allen Parks

Jennifer Carriere

Candace Mayfield

Saeed Adyani

Jim Crabbe

Trenton McRae

Cole Hauser

Mike Quintana

Ashley Brahm

Richard Schexnayder

Kody Chamberlin

Shane Kropog

Bud Connor

Patrick Newall

John W. Frost

Justin Bursch

Manolo Rojas

Tom Abernathy

Jeff Steen

Robert Lewis

Margeaux Fox

Nolan LaBlanc

Marc Uddo

Steve Riley

David Krintzman

Charles Rapp

Matthew Barry

Keith Gruchala

Phil Seifert

Rian Danielle Johnson

Zoran Popović

Mike Barnett

Curt Jackson

Don Carmody

Joe Paganelli

Mike Brinker

Michael Holubar

Eric J. Stolz

Miranda Sink

Emily Meroney

Jason Yanuzzi

Marissa Smith

Jeffrey M. O'Brien

Christopher Williams

James Eck Rippie

Rick Stratton

Jordan Lightner

Michael B. Koff

Budd Bird

Joe Sökmen

Danny Florian

Joshua Anderson

Cody Gautreau

Phil Hadaway

Morey Butler

Justin Meriwether

Arthur Kirk Martin

Gregg Marion

Stephen Vicari

Jesse Brunt

Drama

Action

Crime

Bad Country

Wilmor Entertainment

Mandalay Vision

CB Productions

ANA Media

United States of America

Bad Country is filled with small pleasures. Like Willem Dafoe’s opening and closing narration (few sounds are as soothing as his gravelly baritone). Or Dafoe’s and Matt Dillon’s badass horseshoe mustaches. Or a cameo by the imposing Bill Duke. Or Tom Berenger’s over the top villain (a rosy-cheeked dandy with a Cajun accent, who walks with a cane he doesn't need, shoots clay pigeons, and lives in a prototypical southern mansion).

These are some the hooks on which the filmmakers hang a fairly conventional plot; there’s the cop who doesn't always play by the book but gets results (thankfully we are spared the obligatory scene where his boss takes him off the case and asks him to relinquish his badge and gun), the criminal with the heart of gold who is a lesser evil compared to the real villains, the rookie federal agent who does always play by the book and becomes a thorn in the rogue cop's side, the flamboyant mob boss accompanied by a servile, crooked lawyer, etc., etc., etc.

Bad Country hits all the notes we've come to expect from this type of thriller and, as it turns out, director Chris Brinker and screenwriter Jonathan Hirschbein know the words as well as the music. The superb casting also goes a long way toward refreshing the material; Dafoe and Dillon are such craftsmen that the film is worthwhile just to see what they do with their characters – or, conversely, to watch Berenger and Duke having a lot of fun with their clichés.

As familiar as the script may be, this is a case in which familiarity does not breed contempt; furthermore, clocking in at 95 minutes, Bad Country does not overstay its welcome (the only thing that makes you go ‘huh’ is a random subplot – more ‘sub’ than ‘plot,’ though – involving Dafoe’s character’s father, who stumbles into the plot as if he just wandered in from a different movie, and then disappears as abruptly as he entered).

English

Bad Country Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon Movie HD