Film Review – Rumble Through the Dark

Last month, there was “Desperation Road,” where author Michael Farris Smith adapted his own novel for the screen, exploring the gut-rot ways of guilt and need in rural America. He’s back with “Rumble Through the Dark,” which also happens to be a tale of the gut-rot ways of guilt and need in America. Smith certainly has a love of hardscrabble lives facing the corrosive ways of violence, doing well with the pain of “Desperation Road,” while the hardness of “Rumble Through the Dark” is more of an ask for viewers, especially with an overlong feature that tends to settle on suffering instead of moving forward with storytelling. However, directors Graham and Parker Phillips bring some style to the picture, helping to turn a lengthy journey into agony into something cinematic, while Smith does a capable job of escalation, taking the long way around to a rough conclusion that finds its intended emotionality. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com