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Name: Hell or High Water
Director: David Mackenzie
Genre: crime, drama, western
Released: 2016
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Rating: 7.6

Hell or High Water has an iRankMovies score of 83.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Hell or High Water (2016)

Blood always follows money.

Release:2016

Runtime:1h 42m

Country:United States

Director:David Mackenzie

Language:English

Genre

CrimeDramaWestern

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Keywords

BrotherTexasBank RobberRoad TripGun BattlePolice Officer KilledCriminalHeld At Gunpoint

iRank84

Hell or High Water rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 275K votes

Rotten Tomatoes97%

Metacritic88%

TMDb7.3/10· 5K votes

With 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 88/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Hell or High Water

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

Cast of Hell or High Water

Jeff Bridges
as Marcus Hamilton
Chris Pine
as Toby Howard
Ben Foster
as Tanner Howard
Gil Birmingham
as Alberto Parker
Marin Ireland
as Debbie Howard
Kevin Rankin
as Billy Rayburn
Dale Dickey
as Elsie
William Sterchi
as Mr. Clauson
Kristin K. Berg
as Olney Teller
Katy Mixon
as Jenny Ann
Buck Taylor
as Old Man
Keith Meriweather
as Rancher

Hell or High Water facts

Budget: $12M
Box office: $37.6M

Our take on Hell or High Water

David Mackenzie's 2016 crime western follows a divorced father and his ex-con brother as they pull off a desperate scheme to save the family farm in West Texas. Part heist thriller, part elegy for a hollowed-out region, it lets landscape and character carry as much weight as the robberies themselves. Anyone drawn to lean, morally tangled dramas where lawmen and outlaws feel like two sides of the same weary coin will find plenty to chew on. The pacing favors tension over spectacle, and the sympathy shifts constantly. It suits viewers who prefer their westerns modern, sun-bleached, and grounded in economic desperation rather than gunslinging myth.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Mackenzie constructs deliberately paced neo-Western with genuine moral complexity
•Terse dialogue delivers world-weary characterization without expository clunkiness
•Tension builds methodically through smart criminal planning and investigation