‘The Rivals Of Amziah King’ Review: Matthew McConaughey And Kurt Russell In Bee Movie Crime Thriller – SXSW
deadline.comIn 2020 I reviewed a film premiering on Amazon called The Vast of Night, a small southwestern town drama that felt part Twilight Zone, part Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Its debuting filmmaker was Andrew Patterson, and I started my review predicting that based on that movie he was destined to become a very big thing.
Now five years later he has delivered his second film The Rivals of Amziah King, premiering Monday at SXSW, and he is working with much bigger name actors like Matthew McConaughey and Kurt Russell in a larger-scale crime drama/beekeeping/musical/character drama, but still keeping it rural and real.
Structurally, it seems to be two or three movie ideas rolled into one (at one point he was planning it as a seven-part limited TV series) and relies on the audience to follow the unfolding saga wherever it wants to take us.
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