I’m hit/miss when it comes to critically-acclaimed writer-director Taylor Sheridan. His movies all encompass the same blueprint, they feel etched in screenwriting 101 tropes. “Sicario” was mostly driven by Denis Villeneuve’s pulse-pounding direction, its sequel ‘Day of the Soldado’ was a total mess; “Wind River” was a snowy letdown, but Sheridan’s more-than-decent directorial debut “Hell or High Water” was a solid neo-western, albeit, a tad overpraised. Suffice to say, you can rest assured, in all of these and future Sheridan opuses, there will always be an unnecessarily elaborated coda stuffed in for good measure.
Sheridan’s next effort is titled “Those Who Wish Me Dead” and its synopsis sounds, well, very Sheridan-esque: “A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.”