The Power of Few

 

The Power of Few 2013

• Director: Leone Marucci
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Christopher Walken, Juvenile, Christian Slater, Q’orianka Kitcher, Anthony Anderson, Devon Gearhart, Tione Johnson, Xihuaru Lilcher, Moon Bloodgood, Navid Negahbond, Jesse Bradfors, Nicky Whelan, Derek Richardson, Jordan Prentice
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Christopher Walken – Jersey Boys, Romance & Cigarettes, Catch Me If You Can, Suicide Kings, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Sarah Plain and Tall, Deer Hunter
• Christian Slater – Bobby, True Romance, Star Trek the Undiscovered Country, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, The Name of the Rose
• Jordan Pentice – In Bruges
• Why? Possibly good.
• Seen:  12 October 2022      

       Desperate for money to buy medicine for his baby brother Cory (Gearhart) steals his grandfather’s gun and robs the local shop.

       Flashback to everyone he met while bicycling there, a story for each of them.

       Alexa (Kitcher) is a moped courier who picks up a package from Sahel (Negahbond), helps Dom (Bradford) escape from the drug gang (Juvenile and Anderson) after him because he’s going to witness against one of them.  Doke (Walken) is a long-haired homeless weirdo who rambles philosophically to his friend Brown (Prentice). Two cops are sent to arrest Sahel. Marti (Whelan) is violent, Clyde (Slater) plays by the rules. There are intermittent reports of the Vatican about the theft of the shroud wrapped around Jesus at his death. A little black girl, Few (Johnson), wanders around eating candy bars.

       Yes, it’s all connected. Violently. Bizarrely.

       Walken is brilliant, as always, but it’s the wise-beyond-her years Johnson as Few who really shines in this odd little gem. 

4* of 5