{"id":2168,"date":"2020-06-05T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hammer-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:06:00","slug":"hammer-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hammer-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hammer Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f0f36b98e4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f0f36b98e4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hammer-movie-review\/#Brian_Tallerico\" >Brian Tallerico<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Hammer<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>There are two <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> that weave in and out of \u201cHammer.\u201d One is a domestic drama about a father who has no idea how to help his troubled son, and so has pushed him out of his life. The thinking among parents is often that exclusion will lead to healing. Let kids go through their drama but don&#8217;t let it infect the rest of the family and maybe they&#8217;ll return when they&#8217;re straight again.\u00a0It sometimes works the other way. At the same time, \u201cHammer\u201d is a tense little thriller, a tight movie about someone who made a very bad decision and is now trying to fight his way out of it. Both movies work. At times, \u201cHammer\u201d reminded me of David Gordon Green\u2019s \u201cUndertow\u201d or Jeff Nichols\u2019 \u201cMud,\u201d films that use the natural world in an effective manner, reminding us that thrillers don\u2019t need concrete and steel to be tense. After all, nothing is scarier than a well-shot cornfield.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>\u201cHammer\u201d opens with a drug deal. Chris Davis (Mark O\u2019Brien) is on a deserted road doing the deal with a shady\u00a0former colleague named Adams (Ben Cotton) and his girlfriend Lori (Dayle McLeod). Cuts back to home introduce us to Stephen Davis (Will Patton) and his wife Karen (Vickie Papavs) and hint at tension in the household. Karen\u2019s father is being put in a home and younger brother Jeremy (Connor Price) is questioning decisions they made to push Chris out of the house. As he says, if you treat someone like an outsider they often just become <em>more<\/em> of an outsider. Dealing with children who fall into addiction or lives of crime can often make for incredibly tough decisions for parents as to how to walk that line between support and enabling.   <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just say the deal goes <em>very<\/em> wrong and Stephen, who hasn\u2019t seen his son in a long time, suddenly witnesses him speed through an intersection on a motorcycle. He does a 180 and follows him, noticing blood on the panicked young man\u2019s shirt. Dad learns that something bad h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened and there are bags of money and a body in a field. Will Patton is absolutely phenomenal in the way he conveys the im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>cy of the situation. What do you when you see your son in danger? What if it\u2019s a son who has been on the wrong side of the law before and helping him could pull you and the rest of your family down with him? How do you balance unconditional love with safety concerns for your child, the rest of your family, and yourself?\u00a0The best parts of \u201cHammer\u201d have a sweaty urgency\u2014desperate people making decisions in the moment in a way that feels organic and immediate. Not all of them are the right decisions but thrillers often live and die on how much we believe in the actions of its characters. Bad thrillers use their people as plot devices, pushing forward the twists and turns of a screenwriter instead of allowing the characters to drive the action. Thanks largely to great work by Patton and O\u2019Brien, I believed every second of \u201cHammer.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>It helps to have a strong eye too from director Christian Sparkes and cinematographer Michael Robert McLaughlin. From the opening shot of a blurred face behind a rainy, partially down window, there\u2019s a visual language to \u201cHammer\u201d that\u2019s often missing from works like this. Sparkes finds a way to make his film feel claustrophobic even when Chris and Steven are on the side of an open road. It\u2019s the tension of the situation pushing the imaginary walls in on them. And we feel it too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHammer\u201d might feel a little slight to some and I must admit to liking the first half much more than the second. The set-up is so confident and intriguing that it\u2019s a little understandable that the follow through doesn\u2019t quite fulfill that set-up. However, there is a shot near the end of Patton\u2019s Stephen\u2014when he finally allows the emotion of the violent, devastating day to catch up to him\u2014that is breathtaking. You realize that this man hasn&#8217;t paused to breathe much less feel or think since he saw his son in need. It just triggered something in him to act.\u00a0Sparkes dedicates the film to his father, whose nickname appears to give the movie its title as well. Dad would be proud.   <\/p>\n<p><em>Available on VOD today, 6\/5.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brian Tallerico\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/brian-tallerico\/featured_BT2019.jpg\" title=\"Brian Tallerico\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Brian_Tallerico\"><\/span>Brian Tallerico<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Brian Tallerico is the Editor of RogerEbert.com, and also covers television, film, Blu-ray, and video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s. 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