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‘The Duel’ Review: A Boring Bromance Ends With a Bang, as Both Dudes Draw Guns at 20 Paces
Dylan Sprouse and Callan McAuliffe play one-time besties who've decided to settle a dispute the old-fashioned way in frat-friendly comedy 'The Duel.'
Releasing as a one-night-only screening via Iconic Events on July 31 before hitting streaming in August, the movie looks sharp enough, but lands like a rapier with a cork on it, as Dylan Sprouse and Callan McAuliffe play longtime besties who try to settle a dispute the old-timey way … by blowing one another away with pistols. As it happens, my library contains no fewer than four books called “The Duel,” the shortest of which (by Joseph Conrad) runs a slender 112 pages, but even that has more in the way of subplots and surrounding interest than co-directors Luke Spencer Roberts and Justin Matthews’ debut feature. That’s because neither Colin nor Woody ever became fully dimensional human beings, and what bursts of wit the screenplay did offer felt more like the filmmakers trying to channel Quentin Tarantino or Martin McDonagh than evidence that either of these dudes were worth sparing.
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