I've been beating the drum on director Scott Cooper for some time now, mainly thanks to how highly I thought of his 2013 feature
Out of The Furnace (his 2009 motion picture
Crazy Heart is also notably good). Thought it received an overall divisive critical reception upon initial release, I myself thought it was a great movie that managed to take the basic premise of a revenge action movie and imbue both a terrific Christian Bale performance and thoughtful grimness into it. Taking my love for his past works in mind, it breaks my heart to say that Scott Cooper's newest movie
Hostiles, handily his most ambitious feature yet in terms of themes and scope, is a mess and an unpleasant one at that.
