I have always found Robert Patrick to be an acquired taste, and I suppose I’ve acquired it. He does a little more acting than usual in this true crime thriller, which portrays the infamous 1978 Tison Gang jailbreak and murder rampage across the southwest. Definitely a little Hollywooded-up, as I have a hard time believing all the white-trash villains, lawmen, and bystanders of 1970s Arizona were uniformly so gorgeous (see Heather Graham as Tison’s deluded prison-groupie wife, as well as Chris Browning playing Billy Bob Thornton playing Tison’s fellow escapee, the porcine-in-real-life Randy Greenawalt, as a lean-and-mean, charismatic psychopath), but apparently it’s based on a well-though-of true crime book, and the sheer sociopathy of the crimes makes it a least hold interest.
