Every year at the Toronto International Film Festival, there are a handful of films out of the hundreds selected to screen that just completely pass us by. Sometimes those pictures turn out to be hidden gems, while others are overlooked for a reason. However, in the case of "Beyond The Reach" (originally titled "The Reach"), maybe it didn’t even need to screen at TIFF at all. It’s every bit a b-movie thriller, not a prestige pic, but that doesn’t matter as it looks like a decent slice of sun-baked fun.
Michael Douglas and Jeremy Irvine star in the movie, directed by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti ("Carré blanc"), that centers on a massively successful businessman and expert tracker who goes on a hunting trip out in the Mojave Desert with a young guide. However, when the millionaire accidentally kills someone, the kid becomes his next target. A simple premise, and maybe not the brainiest the flick, but it’s one that looks like it could be a decent enough piece of popcorn, with Douglas certainly enjoying chewing up the scenery as the big bad.
"Beyond The Reach" opens in cinemas and on VOD on April 17th.
Un thriller entretenido con un epílogo y un prólogo algo confusos. Muy buen trabajo de los protagonistas y una sutil crítica al desprestigio de la ley (en la personaje del comisario). Es una película de suspenso digna de verse como pasatiempo en una tarde de verano…. (con mucho sol).
Looks fun, especially the part where Jeremy Irvine apparently spends most of the movie in his underpants.
I read this book in middle school and have been wanting it made into a movie ever since! Of course I envisioned Alex Baldwin as the bad guy when I read it.
Previously filmed as the tv movie SAVAGES, with Andy Griffith and Sam Bottoms.