ONE FALSE MOVE could have done likewise, but instead derails itself with two-bit coincidence and unnecessary roughness. 408 IMDb 7.1 1 h R Suspense Drama Intense Malicious Available to rent or buy Rent HD 3.59 Buy HD 14. until he learns his ex-girlfriend is one of them. The subsequent shoot-out which leaves Fantasia and her cronies dead and Dale seriously wounded, wastes a choice films, such as WITNESS, have used the crime genre as a backdrop for fascinating observations about culture shock and character conflict. One False Move A small-town sheriff is out to bag his first big city drug dealers. This interesting setup withers away in the final half hour, as ONE FALSE MOVE makes a false move of its own: a distracting plot twist involving an affair between Fantasia and Dale years ago which (unbeknownst to him) produced a son. Star City’s sheriff, Dale Dixon, is a good ol’ boy about to wade into a situation way over his head. Like so many great crime thrillers, One False Move sets two narrative threads in motion that will inevitably collide. And when Fantasia, their beautiful accomplice, begs to go home to Arkansas, she unwittingly leads them into the eye of the hurricane. detectives, who figure out that the killers’ destination is Fantasia’s home town, Star City, Arkansas. Such is Carl Franklin’s One False Move, a neo-noir from 1992 starring Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams. Two ruthless drug dealers commit a brutal mass murder in Los Angeles and are forced to flee the state. With drugs and $15,000 in hand, they take off. It opens with a beautiful black woman named Fantasia, her foul-mouthed boyfriend, Ray, and the vicious Pluto savagely murdering a black family while searching for cash and cocaine. ONE FALSE MOVE is a tense drama, spoiled by violence, foul language and a disappointing finale.
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