who died in September at age 54, is the best part of the new movie “892” — the “Wire” actor’s final film role.The edgy Williams is perfection as a crisis negotiator during a dangerous standoff.
As his character Eli attempts to diffuse a hostage situation, he is measured, conversational and, most vitally, believable. Everything he says on the phone to the captor, whether true or not, the man believes — and so do we.
Otherwise “892,” which had its world premiere in the Sundance Film Festival, is a predictable movie we’ve all seen many times before: a hostage thriller in which the robber is sympathetic.
Hardly shocking the guy’s likable considering he’s the main character.What sets the drama apart is that it’s based on the true story of Brian Brown-Easley (John Boyega), a 33-year-old Iraq War veteran who walked into a Georgia Wells Fargo one day in 2017 with a bomb and a demand that the VA give him some money he’s owed.
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