There are films that you want to claim from time to time, especially if they are not particularly well-known and also failed unfairly when they arrived in theaters. 'One of us' is a good example of this, since this thriller with a western soul starring Kevin Costner He well deserves a second chance. And fortunately he has achieved it, because it has been sweeping since it was included in the catalog of Netflix in Spain.
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It came out at a very bad time.
I remember that I already told you a little about it when it began to be available on Amazon Prime Video, but it was with the change of platform that this feature film directed by Thomas Bezucha. At the time it had the bad luck of being released in 2020, a year marked more than any other by the coronavirus pandemic, which led to it barely having a worldwide gross of 11 million dollars against a budget of 21. For example, In Spain it barely amassed 258,000 euros as a result of the slightly more than 42,000 spectators who passed through the box office.
In 'One of Us' you will find a thriller that simmers, which begins with a more intimate and dramatic approach to expand horizons until everything explodes during its final stretch. That physical and emotional journey of the characters played by Costner and Diane Lane To try to rescue his grandson, he traps you with an infallible weapon: well-constructed and better-acted characters.
This leads to one getting more and more into the skin of that marriage in trouble and when the last act arrives one is totally dedicated. And it is also something that is being built gradually so that that intensity arises naturally within a story with certain points in common with that emblematic western such as 'Desert Centaurs'.
The result is true that it may disappoint those looking for more vibrant proposals, but in its own way we are also faced with a film that works quite well as a good option if you have been left orphaned by modern westerns after the end 'Yellowstone'. In fact, for me 'One of Us' surpasses the famous series of Taylor Sheridan in many things. The only thing he was missing was that success that has come to him now thanks to Netflix.
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