![]() ![]() The inciting event of "Those Who Wish Me Dead" takes place far away from the forest in question. ![]() The movie feels like a throwback to the disaster films of the 1970s, like " The Poseidon Adventure" or "Towering Inferno," where character development is cursory at best, since the main game is the disaster unfolding around the characters. "Those Who Wish Me Dead," directed by Taylor Sheridan, whose screenplays for " Sicario" and " Hell or High Water" show his gift for mixing taut thrillers with complex character studies, gives us the bare bones of Hannah's "issues." But the film leaps around so much, working to incorporate multiple narratives, including a massive forest fire, and tossing it all together inhibits the kind of emotions a film like "Those Who Wish Me Dead" requires. She is drawn to playing broken people who find their resilience. She's tough but wild, strong but vulnerable. This is all potentially interesting stuff, and it's right in Jolie's wheelhouse. ![]()
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