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HomeBusinessWhite Boy Rick (9/10) Movie Reviews and Video

White Boy Rick (9/10) Movie Reviews and Video

White Boy Rick (9/10) Movie Reviews and Video – CWEB.com

Photo Credit /Sony Pictures White Boy Rick

Tony Medley / Movie Reviews

Runtime 116 minutes

R.

Some movies are terrible from the get go. Others grab you right away and keep you riveted. This is the latter. Based on the true story of  Richard Wershe Sr. (Matthew  McConaughey) and his teenage son, Rick Jr. (Richie Merritt in his acting debut), Rick becomes a police informant and a drug dealer beginning when he is only 15 years old.

Directed by Yann Demange from a script by Andy Weiss and Logan & Noah Miller, the dialogue, direct from the streets, is authentic and credible. Merritt and McConaughey give Oscar ®-quality performances and they are ably backed up by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rory Cochrane as the FBI agents who begin working with Rick as a confidential informant, and Brian Tyree Henry as narcotics Detective Jackson; Bruce Dern as Rick’s grandfather, Roman “Ray” Wershe; Piper Laurie, who went to my Junior High School (long before me), as Rick’s grandmother, Verna Wershe; and last but not least Bel Powley as Rick’s sister, Dawn. In fact, if there is a performance that is exceeded only by Merritt’s, it is Powley’s.

Rick was the youngest FBI informant ever. The story is told through a tempestuous, byzantine relationship between Rick and his father, who is a consummate hustler trying to bring up a son and a daughter and provide for them doing things like buying guns and reselling them, a pretty sleazy guy on the outskirts of respectability. But he clearly loves his children, and most of what he does seems to be to help them, however misguided his advice might be.

Rick feels responsibility for his sister, who is involved with a bad boyfriend and drugs, and his father, so he feels compelled to do things he knows aren’t right.

Rick and his father come face to face with the terrible corruption of Detroit police, politicians, and the FBI, and are clearly overmatched. This is a heart-wrenching but captivating film whose tension never lags.

Although filmed in Cleveland, cinematographer Tat Radcliffe and Production Designer Stefania Cella brilliantly reproduced the stagnating atmosphere of Detroit in the 1980s. This unique ambience is an essential character in the movie.

Despite the presence of Oscar ®-winning McConaughey, the star of the movie is Merritt. He is in almost every scene and he carries the film with a truly remarkable performance, especially considering it’s his debut.

Spoiler Alert:  This film clearly has a POV, however I am not convinced. It is undisputed that after he was an informant he became a big time drug dealer. The movie, which takes the position that he was railroaded and left out to dry by his law enforcement handlers, pretty much glosses over that fact.

Tony Medley / Movie Reviews

 

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