死人线

Clockwise from main: Bill Skarsgård and Dacre Montgomery; Cary Elwes; Colman Domingo plays DJ Fred Temple. Skarsgård — the member of the Swedish acting dynasty most dedicated to playing scumbags, villains and evil clowns — plays the real-life kidnapper Tony Kiritsis. In 1977, Kiritsis walked into the Meridian Mortgage company in Indianapolis, and attached a “dead man’s wire” to the neck of mortgage broker Richard Hall (Montgomery), a device rigged to fire a shotgun should anyone interfere. What followed was a stand-off of both fury and farce. DEAD MAN’S WIRE message feels a little simplistic. The film’s main strengths are in its straightforward, sweaty tension. …