Synopsis
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.
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Cast
- Danny GloverMr. Walker
- Julie BenzKristen
- Joe AndersonGarrett Tully
- Dawn OlivieriDoreen
- Derek LukeRaymond
- Evan RossAnthony
- Lela RochonMother
- Mahershala AliDeputy Rivers
- Nick ChinlundHannity
- Robin BobeauCassie
Recommandations
- 50
The Hollywood Reporter
With filmmaking roots in horror and other genre fare, Taylor invokes some interesting cinematic choices but sometimes seems to be uneasily straddling the line between serious, intense drama and outright exploitation. - 40
New York Daily News
Supremacy is so grueling an ordeal that its revelations barely penetrate the murk. - 30
Village Voice
[A] dour, dreary drama. - 30
The Dissolve
Supremacy is a well-acted, abysmally written, deeply unpleasant exercise that pays no dividends of insight (or heaven forfend, amusement) for the chore of enduring its endless racial epithets and handheld shots of gun barrels in faces. - 30
The New York Times
Feeding over-the-top language to underdeveloped characters, Deon Taylor’s Supremacy dramatizes racism with an unvarying intensity that quickly becomes wearing. - 25
Slant Magazine
The characters shout themselves hoarse, but they don't really say anything, and it isn't long before we feel like hostages ourselves, bound by the filmmakers' strained moral outrage.
