Out Of The Furnace

 

Russell Baze (Christian Bale) has a rough life: he works a dead-end blue collar job at the local steel mill by day, and cares for his terminally ill father by night. When Russell's brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) returns home from serving time in Iraq, he gets lured into one of the most ruthless crime rings in the Northeast and mysteriously disappears. The police fail to crack the case, so - with nothing left to lose - Russell takes matters into his own hands, putting his life on the line to seek justice for his brother.

There was something about this movie that kept me hooked and made me want to like this movie.  I liked the characters and thought that the acting across the board was great.  Unfortunately, the movie never really came fully together.  It took way to long to get fully moving.  More disappointing was that once the characters got built up to a certain point they just kind of stopped and left things unanswered.  Woody Harrelson's character is still annoying me now because I felt like I was left waiting for more to be put into the development of it instead of him being a douche just because he's a douche. 

I wouldn't really recommend people checking this out.  Its not that the movie was bad.  It ended up a decent watch but it ended up just kind of being there instead of being a fully developed story of simple but complex at the same time characters.