Overview
- Early notices from SXSW and regional festival screenings praise the film’s dark comic tone and Odenkirk’s lead turn.
- The film opens in U.S. theaters Friday, April 17, following its festival run and growing word of mouth.
- Set in Normal, Minnesota, the story tracks an interim sheriff whose response to a bank heist exposes a secret tie to the yakuza without giving away late twists.
- Reviewers describe a mash-up of Western and gangster vibes with gleefully over-the-top shootouts and bleak humor that plays more madcap than grim.
- Written by Derek Kolstad and directed by Ben Wheatley, with Odenkirk holding a story credit, the movie nods to the Nobody/John Wick lineage while threading in topical small-town concerns without preaching.