Carter & June
Film
Review by Kam Williams
Bank
Heist Dramedy Has Shades of Baby Driver
Baby
Driver was this critic's pick for the #1 movie of 2017. It never
takes very long for idea-bereft Hollywood to imitate a big hit.
Exhibit A: Carter & June, a bank robbery flick which fails to
measure up to Baby Driver, whether or not that cinematic masterpiece
served as the source of director/co-writer Nicholas Kalikow's
inspiration.
A
la Baby Driver, Carter & June revolves around a waitress and
mobster under the thumb of a Machiavellian villain. But where the
former film featured an A-list cast with Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Kevin
Spacey and Ansel Elgort, the latter's ensemble doesn't have any
matinee idols.
Michael
Raymond-James and Samaire Armstrong co-star as the title characters
Carter & June, respectively, an action-driven dramedy set in New
Orleans. Like the protagonist of Baby Driver, Carter is a small-time
crook looking to go legit. Trouble, is he's indebted to Spencer
Rabbit (Timothy Omundson), a vicious crime boss operating with
impunity in the city because so many crooked cops, including the
police commissioner (Paul Rae), are on the take.
At
the point of departure, we find Carter losing a load of Rabbit's cash
during a drug deal gone bad. That means the only way to get back in
the kingpin's good graces and out of his unsavory line of work once
and for all is to participate in an elaborate heist of a cool
half-million dollars from the New Orleans Bank & Trust. Of
course, that will prove easier said than done.
Unfortunately,
for the audience's purposes, the screen is littered with more
sidebars and support characters than you might care to keep track of.
For instance, there's a compromised cop (James Landry Hebert) with a
greedy wife (Lindsay Musil) who's secretly sleeping with a local
preacher (Will Beinbrink). And June just happens to be in the midst a
bitter custody battle with her vindictive ex over their young
daughter.
An
overplotted mess that throws everything but the kitchen sink up on
the screen.
Unrated
Running time: 87 minutes
Production Studios: Sacred Bull Media / Octane Entertainment
Distributor: Freestyle Digital Media
To see a trailer for Carter & June, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lziv1wI3fvk
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