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Netflix’s Rebel Ridge Is an Instant Slow-Burn Action Classic
Director Jeremy Saulnier and star Aaron Pierre expertly ratchet up the tension in this thriller about a vet who tussles with corrupt small-town cops.
The catch is that his cousin, who was once a cooperating witness in the murder trial of a gang leader, is being transferred in two days to state prison, where he’ll be a dead man walking. Clearly taking a cue from their cruelly laid-back chief (Don Johnson), the smug cops smirk with the full knowledge that Terry can’t really do anything about this, despite the fact that he’s a walking wall of a man with arms the size of torpedoes. But Rebel Ridge at times seems to have been made specifically to inform the American public about the injustices of civil asset forfeiture; Terry even gets an aspiring-lawyer sidekick, Summer (Anna Sophia Robb), who works for the county clerk and conveniently explains the situation whenever context is required.
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