The Hollow Point

The Hollow Point is a blazing contemporary western that finds pleasure in punishment.

3014d ago

Patrick Wilson and Ian McShane bring dimension to this pulp entry, which lacks vision but offers fresh thinking and devotion to the crime genre.

3014d ago

Patrick Wilson and Ian McShane bring dimension to this pulp entry, which lacks vision but offers fresh thinking and devotion to the crime genre.

3014d ago

Patrick Wilson and Ian McShane bring dimension to this pulp entry, which lacks vision but offers fresh thinking and devotion to the crime genre.

3014d ago

Patrick Wilson and Ian McShane bring dimension to this pulp entry, which lacks vision but offers fresh thinking and devotion to the crime genre.

3014d ago

Western and noir collide in Gonzalo Lopez Gallego's violent border drama.

3014d ago

Western and noir collide in Gonzalo Lopez Gallego's violent border drama.

3014d ago

Western and noir collide in Gonzalo Lopez Gallego's violent border drama.

3014d ago

Western and noir collide in Gonzalo Lopez Gallego's violent border drama.

3014d ago

Still, while it may sound like the film is borderline irredeemable, “The Hollow Point” knows its place; it knows of its B-movie roots, its tired plot and well-worn archetypes, and beneath the burden of the sorely unoriginal, it does manage to be occasionally funny, occasionally surprising, and occasionally the bloody and bombastic genre cliche it set out to be.

3014d ago

Still, while it may sound like the film is borderline irredeemable, “The Hollow Point” knows its place; it knows of its B-movie roots, its tired plot and well-worn archetypes, and beneath the burden of the sorely unoriginal, it does manage to be occasionally funny, occasionally surprising, and occasionally the bloody and bombastic genre cliche it set out to be.

3014d ago

Still, while it may sound like the film is borderline irredeemable, “The Hollow Point” knows its place; it knows of its B-movie roots, its tired plot and well-worn archetypes, and beneath the burden of the sorely unoriginal, it does manage to be occasionally funny, occasionally surprising, and occasionally the bloody and bombastic genre cliche it set out to be.

3014d ago

Still, while it may sound like the film is borderline irredeemable, “The Hollow Point” knows its place; it knows of its B-movie roots, its tired plot and well-worn archetypes, and beneath the burden of the sorely unoriginal, it does manage to be occasionally funny, occasionally surprising, and occasionally the bloody and bombastic genre cliche it set out to be.

3014d ago

The combined skills of the director, Gonzalo López-Gallego, and his cinematographer, José David Montero, can’t surmount a story that gives us no one to invest in.

3014d ago

The combined skills of the director, Gonzalo López-Gallego, and his cinematographer, José David Montero, can’t surmount a story that gives us no one to invest in.

3014d ago

The combined skills of the director, Gonzalo López-Gallego, and his cinematographer, José David Montero, can’t surmount a story that gives us no one to invest in.

3014d ago

An over-the-top Ian McShane is the chief selling point for this formulaic neo-noir drama, which also stars Patrick Wilson.

3014d ago

An over-the-top Ian McShane is the chief selling point for this formulaic neo-noir drama, which also stars Patrick Wilson.

3014d ago

An over-the-top Ian McShane is the chief selling point for this formulaic neo-noir drama, which also stars Patrick Wilson.

3014d ago

The combined skills of the director, Gonzalo López-Gallego, and his cinematographer, José David Montero, can’t surmount a story that gives us no one to invest in.

3014d ago

An over-the-top Ian McShane is the chief selling point for this formulaic neo-noir drama, which also stars Patrick Wilson.

3014d ago

Even for a proud B movie, this is ridiculous: Gonzalo Lopéz-Gallego’s The Hollow Point imagines a small town on the U.S.-Mexican border where the only Latino person is a cartel plant (John Leguizamo) sent to murder the white folks who sold the Mexicans bullets.

3014d ago

Even for a proud B movie, this is ridiculous: Gonzalo Lopéz-Gallego’s The Hollow Point imagines a small town on the U.S.-Mexican border where the only Latino person is a cartel plant (John Leguizamo) sent to murder the white folks who sold the Mexicans bullets.

3014d ago

Even for a proud B movie, this is ridiculous: Gonzalo Lopéz-Gallego’s The Hollow Point imagines a small town on the U.S.-Mexican border where the only Latino person is a cartel plant (John Leguizamo) sent to murder the white folks who sold the Mexicans bullets.

3014d ago

Even for a proud B movie, this is ridiculous: Gonzalo Lopéz-Gallego’s The Hollow Point imagines a small town on the U.S.-Mexican border where the only Latino person is a cartel plant (John Leguizamo) sent to murder the white folks who sold the Mexicans bullets.

3014d ago

Gonzalo López-Gallego's The Hollow Point is another thriller set on the U.S./Mexican border that's eaten up with the luridly biblical pretension that Cormac McCarthy brought to the genre in No Country for Old Men, only without the attending poetry.

3014d ago

“Millions of store-bought bullets are now being smuggled into Mexico,” an on-screen title, one of several, explains at the beginning of this action thriller.

3014d ago

“Millions of store-bought bullets are now being smuggled into Mexico,” an on-screen title, one of several, explains at the beginning of this action thriller.

3014d ago

Gonzalo López-Gallego's The Hollow Point is another thriller set on the U.S./Mexican border that's eaten up with the luridly biblical pretension that Cormac McCarthy brought to the genre in No Country for Old Men, only without the attending poetry.

3014d ago

Gonzalo López-Gallego's The Hollow Point is another thriller set on the U.S./Mexican border that's eaten up with the luridly biblical pretension that Cormac McCarthy brought to the genre in No Country for Old Men, only without the attending poetry.

3014d ago

Gonzalo López-Gallego's The Hollow Point is another thriller set on the U.S./Mexican border that's eaten up with the luridly biblical pretension that Cormac McCarthy brought to the genre in No Country for Old Men, only without the attending poetry.

3014d ago

“Millions of store-bought bullets are now being smuggled into Mexico,” an on-screen title, one of several, explains at the beginning of this action thriller.

3014d ago

“Millions of store-bought bullets are now being smuggled into Mexico,” an on-screen title, one of several, explains at the beginning of this action thriller.

3014d ago