J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There\u2019s something so fascinating about a performer like Simmons who can pivot from a guy who looks like your average suburban neighbor to a total lunatic with a perfectly timed malevolent smile. He\u2019s having a blast in most of \u201cYou Can\u2019t Run Forever,\u201d and the fact that it was co-written and directed by his wife of almost thirty years probably made this an even more memorable shoot. Sadly, he\u2019s the only one having fun. You certainly won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
To be fair, \u201cYou Can\u2019t Run Forever\u201d does open with a memorable blast, but it\u2019s a scene that\u2019s indicative of the tonal problems that will follow. Simmons\u2019 Wade pulls up to a gas station in the middle of nowhere just in time to see a fight between a couple sitting in chairs outside the convenience store and a dude yelling at his yappy dog. He marches up to the dog owner, solving the dilemma by shooting him and the couple before driving off over the horizon. He\u2019s deranged. And not just your typical Movie Villain deranged. In one scene, he pleasures himself to a photo of the wife of the guy he\u2019s just killed. There\u2019s a version of \u201cYou Can\u2019t Run Forever\u201d that plays like \u201cHigh Tension\u201d or \u201cMartyrs,\u201d truly leaning into its ultra-violent view of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There\u2019s something so fascinating about a performer like Simmons who can pivot from a guy who looks like your average suburban neighbor to a total lunatic with a perfectly timed malevolent smile. He\u2019s having a blast in most of \u201cYou Can\u2019t Run Forever,\u201d and the fact that it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thriller-movies","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}