REBEL RIDGE from NET-FLIX (2024). This premiered on the streaming online giant "Netflix" last Sept. 6, 2024. It received great reviews and solid ratings.
I am personally wondering why it didn't get a theatrical release. Nonetheless, Netflix has a wide audience and that is where this movie flourished. I heard about it and finally watched it.
Critics always compare films to others that have come before. "Rebel Ridge" hearkens back to the 1982 movie, "First Blood" with Sly Stallone. The "cliches" are here with racism in a small town against a black male... Revenge... Corruption by police officers... It has been done before in dozens of movies. This has all of that, but it is so well written and executed. It is a "riveting" drama.
The story surrounds a former Marine named Terry Richmond. He rides his bike toward the town courthouse with $30,000 cash in his back pack. That money is to bail-out his cousin from jail. Terry is literally hit and forced off the road by police. They charge him with fleeing law enforcement and they steal his money. He decides to fight a racist and corrupt police chief. The more he investigates. Racism is just the surface of what is going on.
If you ever faced racism. You understand Terry's situation as a black male or a minority. It made me "angry" when the police ran him down on his bicycle for a made up charge. I have to say that I was pulling for Terry when the cops forced him out of town after personally devastating news. The reason goes deeper because of Terry's cousin and racism against blacks. I applauded at the end of this movie because of possible "justice."
"Rebel Ridge" was written, directed, edited and produced by Jeremy Saulnier. Check it out. You will not be disappointed.
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