They enact vengeance on someone who has been abusing Jesse. The guys follow a couple after a road rage incident and terrorize them in their home. “Gully” becomes a story of randomly connected acts of violence. As the guys head out on their rampage, Elderkin pops up video game images out of something like “Grand Theft Auto V,” indicating on screen how many pills the guys just jacked and how they have now reached a new “rank.” Like so many elements in “Gully,” this concept is underdeveloped thematically and then barely utilized. All three young men come from broken, violent pasts, and recent revelations push them into a wave of violence, almost as if Guillory and Elderkin are making a modern variation on “ A Clockwork Orange,” asking what happens when young men who have been raised in brutal worlds end up unleashing that pent-up brutality on everyone around them.Īt first, “Gully” almost seems to be pointing a finger at video game culture. Guillory, but it’s only one sign of a script that doesn’t quite hold together.) Jesse tells his story of trauma and abuse, along with how it intersects with those of his two friends Calvin (Latimore) and Nicky (Plummer). (Why Jesse is narrating a story he only knows parts of is a question likely never asked by writer Marcus J. Jesse (Harrison) narrates “Gully” with overwritten voiceover that constantly pulls from any attempts at realism. In a sense, it’s about cycles of violence that lead to inevitable tragedy, but it has too little thrust to make that feel interesting or original other than the hope that you can’t wait to see these talented young people make something better. It’s a film filled with half-hearted ideas and thin characters, all in the service of a story that wallows in its trauma in a manner that gives it little purpose.
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Around 50 minutes in, I realized I was waiting for the movie to really get started and realizing that it probably wasn’t going to do so. Add in a supporting cast that includes the great Jonathan Majors (“ The Last Black Man in San Francisco”), along with veterans like Terrence Howard, John Corbett, and Amber Heard, and “Gully” feels like it should at least be interesting. (“ Luce”), Charlie Plummer (“ Lean on Pete”) and Jacob Latimore (“ Sleight”) are three of the most interesting performers of their generation. Uncertain what story it's telling, Nabil Elderkin’s “Gully” is only held together by the sheer talent of its young cast.
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