Time Out says
This brazenly silly western thriller stars Angelina Jolie as a fierce Montana smoke-jumper
Danger has many flavours in
Those Who Wish Me Dead. Ferocious fires rage across the Montana wilderness. So do nightmarish storms. And most unsettlingly of all, so do two damn suave assassins: an unlikely duo, played by Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult, who’ve been charged with hushing up a big political corruption case.
Unhappily for the protagonists in this impressively silly yet gripping western thriller, they will slay pretty much anyone who gets in their way. That even applies to Connor (Finn Little), a wise-for-his-years kid whose dad is a forensic accountant. He knows stuff he shouldn’t. They flee to the forests, Connor ends up lost and alone. And then, fortuitously, running along a creek, he meets Hannah (a fierce, assured Angelina Jolie), a ‘smoke-jumping’ firefighter who surveys the picturesque woodland from her watchtower.
USA TODAY
Spoiler alert! The following post discusses key plot points in Those Who Wish Me Dead so beware if you haven t seen it yet.
The filmmakers of her newest film don t wish Angelina Jolie dead, though they certainly put her character through the wringer.
Director Taylor Sheridan’s wilderness thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead” (now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max) features Jolie as a risk-taking Montana smokejumper grounded after being blamed for a tragically botched mission. She gets a second chance at saving folks, though, when a 12-year-old boy named Connor (Finn Little) needs her help to escape a couple of ruthless assassins (Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult).
By ETonline Staff 3:44 PM PDT, May 14, 2021
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Angelina Jolie is taking you into the fire with her new thriller,
Those Who Wish Me Dead, the latest release from Warner Bros. to arrive in movie theaters and be available to watch at home on the same day.
Verdict: Funny, sad documentary
To believe in the almost impressively porous plot of Those Who Wish Me Dead, you have first to believe in Angelina Jolie as a smoke-jumper , a specialist firefighter who parachutes out of planes to deal with rampaging forest blazes
To believe in the almost impressively porous plot of Those Who Wish Me Dead, you have first to believe in Angelina Jolie as a smoke-jumper , a specialist firefighter who parachutes out of planes to deal with rampaging forest blazes.
Then you have to buy the idea that Jolie s character, Hannah, the only woman in a close-knit band of alpha males, might be the loudest, wittiest and hardest-drinking of them all, able to parry the merest hint of a suggestive remark with a wisecrack like a punch to the windpipe.