The film centers on three people in a border New Mexico county. Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel) is the local sheriff. The county has recently hired a new parole officer (Brenda Brethyn) who is fair and honest. William Garnett (a slim Forest Whitaker) has been recently paroled. He was a drug dealer working for Terence (Luis Guzmán) and he also killed the deputy (One Clapton mystery solved.)
Agati feels it is his duty to see Garnett fail while Smith wants to see him succeed. Everybody bumps heads in this low action drama.
The acting was good. I really wished they gave the characters a little more colorful personality, as it was bordering on boring realism. The film is nearly two hours long and the drama moves slow. Characters are built up and not read to you. A well put together film that was too long and too slow for my taste.
Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Violence is at a distance and not graphic.
Two Men in Town
2014
Action / Drama
Plot summary
Forest Whitaker plays a parolee, who finds Allah inside, and tries to get his life on track after 18 years. He's off to a good start with a job, a bank account, and a good woman. Of course his old partner in crime tries hard to get him to come back to his old ways, but the real problem is the sheriff in town who won't let him forget his dark past.
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YOU CAN'T BREAK THE LAW TO ENFORCE THE LAW.
Another Perspective
First time to see it tonight . Of course Forest Whitaker performance is excellent , movie as a whole is average . Have one or two remarks . Why a black man ? it could have been a white man and the same events would have happened with him too !!! or was that to reflect a raciest problem ? that wasn't clear too .
Why make him a " Muslim " who converted to Islam during his 18 years prison time ? what really reflected that ? from my view as a Muslim ...nothing but view shots but not a behavior , he drinks , living with a woman without marriage ...which would have been more normal behavior for a regular Muslim not a converted , practicing ones ,who prays at Mosque , ones whom usually have stronger faith .
Exquisite film -- a real sleeper
"Two Men in Town" (2014)" is a brilliant blend of acting, directing, cinematography and setting. Why isn't this film better known? It's a real sleeper that ranks up there with series noir classics of the US Southwest -- from "Bad Day At Black Rock" (1955) through "No Country For Old Men" (2007). Yet one can see why this gets a low IMDb rating, probably low US Box Office too. This is not a happy film. This is not sunny, funny New Mexico. Another "Milagro Beanfield War" with a magically satisfying ending. "Two Men in Town" is richer; traditional and innovative at the same time. Acting A+; equally the DP work. This is both Cop Show and Western. Bigger than a single genre. Here be the desert -- of the soul. Here be echoes of Camus' "The Stranger". Here be an austere foreboding world from which man or woman cannot escape. God has left. Check it out. Good luck.