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Finally saw this one, adapted from the novel by Joe Lansdale (Hap & Leonard, Bubba Ho-Tep). It suckers you by starting off like any stereotypical psychological thriller: family dad shoots and kills a burglar in the house, finds out the burglar's dad has just been released from prison, burglar's dad threatens protagonist's son in revenge, etc. But...

Spoiler:
as soon as the cops arrest criminal Sr., there's a massive genre shift and the whole movie becomes an action-buddy-comedy movie
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It's set in the '80s, so it was a very nice move on the casting director's part to put Don Johnson, who defined "cool" in the 80s, in the role of Lansdale's coolest cat character, Jim-Bob Luke, complete with steer horns on his "Red B~#+*" car. Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff) does a great job as the senior criminal, and apparently the mild-mannered house-dad is the same guys who plays the title character "Dexter."


You sure it doesn't take place in the South hemisphere?

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