Review – At Close Range

Though probably best known for the title theme song performed by Madonna, this so-dumb-it-must-be-true crime drama has a few other things going for it. Sean Penn and Christopher Walken spend most of the movie in a scenery-chewing contest, with Walken emerging the winner only because he turns in one of his all-time most grossly over-acted performances in a long career to overplayed roles. Acting aside, it works reasonably well as a white trash idyll destroyed by a father who involves his sons in the family farm-equipment-stealing business. Mildly amusing