John Travolta will get prime billing on this gritty crime flick which the press launch describes as his “comeback thriller”.

It’s no Pulp Fiction nevertheless it’s positively a a lot classier affair than any of his current straight-to-streaming motion motion pictures.

While Travolta delivers an enjoyably understated efficiency as a small-town sheriff, Stephen Dorff will get a far juicier position as a creepy murderer.

If you’ve seen the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men or the TV collection True Detective (Dorff’s precise comeback thriller), you’ll know what to anticipate from first-time director Nicholas Maggio.

But some crunchy dialogue and really darkish twists add surprises to a well-recognized set-up. In the lead position, Shiloh Fernandez performs struggling household man Shelby who's persuaded to participate in a theft of a strip-mall drug retailer along with his feckless brother-in-law (Kevin Dillon).

Unsurprisingly, the job doesn’t go as easily as promised. After making off with a stash of capsules and killing two guards, they uncover the pharmacy is owned by the Mob.

That brings in Dorff’s enforcer Clayton, an uncommon heavy who wears down his targets with philosophical musings in regards to the meaninglessness of human existence.

To pay again his debt to the Mob, Shelby reluctantly agrees to work with Clayton in tidying up “loose ends”, as Travolta’s cop begins to circle.

Highlights embrace a darkly comedian sequence in a gasoline station the place Dorff invitations (and virtually lives as much as) comparisons with Javier Bardem’s flip within the Coens’ Oscar winner.

Mob Land, Cert 15, In cinemas now