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But it also aims to be a budding love story, between Liza and Jay, whose bland scenes put the skids on a promising serial-killer saga. With snowy Quebec stunt-doubling for the Upper Peninsula, and a half dozen violent deaths by mid-film, Deadfall fits the genre of Northern Western, or maybe blanc noir. (READ: Corliss’s 2003 profile of Eric Bana) That gives Deadfall enough plot contrivances and twisted, twinned destinies for any old movie, though not necessarily a good one. So two semi-innocents are wanted for murder, and the natural-born killer Addison is secretly on his way to meet them at the home of Jay’s parents. It happens that Liza, who just helped her brother Addison (Eric Bana) rob an Indian casino, is on the run after Addison shot a state trooper dead and Jay, an Olympic boxer and ex-con, was out of jail for about two minutes before accidentally killing his crooked manager.

Follow is kinda like an old movie, don’t you think?” asks Liza (Olivia Wilde) of Jay (Charlie Hunnam), a stranger giving her a lift in the frozen barrens of Michigan.

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