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The Duel

Name: The Duel
Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Genre: Drama, Western, Crime/detective, Thriller, Mystery
Released: 2016
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Liam Hemsworth, Alice Braga, Emory Cohen, Felicity Price

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Drama
Western

2016
Kieran Darcy-Smith
110 mins
15

Summary

A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Terry Staunton

Liam Hemsworth stars in this western set on the border between Texas and Mexico. He plays a lawman who, with his wife Alice Braga, goes undercover in an isolated town to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances. His chief suspect is Woody Harrelson's charismatic mayor and preacher, and as an uneasy friendship develops between the two men, a sinister conspiracy begins to reveal itself. With the action taking place a few years after the end of the American Civil War, the first half of director Kieran Darcy-Smith's film examines longstanding racial tensions in a succession of dialogue-heavy scenes, before pivoting to more violent scenarios that seem at odds with the low-key drama preceding them. Hemsworth and Braga make a well-matched couple as the forces of good digging into the townsfolk's secrets, but it's Harrelson who really catches the eye. He offers a masterclass in quiet menace in a performance that invites parallels with Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, but is less convincing as the narrative becomes more gruesome and cartoon-like.

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5.8/10