{"id":18711,"date":"2026-06-23T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18711"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:37:27","slug":"normal-2025-ben-wheatley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18711","title":{"rendered":"Normal (2025, Ben Wheatley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow when I wasn&#8217;t paying attention to the drug TV shows and the Russian-made genre flicks, Bob Odenkirk became an action star in his sixties.  Here he&#8217;s a traveling fill-in lawman, and while halfheartedly playing sheriff for some Minnesota town a lot of shit goes down &#8211; a bank robbery brings the yakuza-payrolled townsfolk to armed warfare.  &#8220;That&#8217;s not where I was aiming&#8221; &#8211; Bob&#8217;s first return shot blows apart Evil Mayor Fonz.  The dead ex-sheriff&#8217;s daughter Jess McLeod teams up with him.  It&#8217;s all shooting and &#8216;splosives until the two sides team up to con the Japanese into not murdering them all, then the ruse is exposed and it&#8217;s all shooting and &#8216;sploves some more.  A pretty good time, more generic than <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14689\">Free Fire<\/a><\/em> but also better.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/normal1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Fukasaku Fest:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/normal2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow when I wasn&#8217;t paying attention to the drug TV shows and the Russian-made genre flicks, Bob Odenkirk became an action star in his sixties. Here he&#8217;s a traveling fill-in lawman, and while halfheartedly playing sheriff for some Minnesota town a lot of shit goes down &#8211; a bank robbery brings the yakuza-payrolled townsfolk to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,1495,2820,36,726,422],"class_list":["post-18711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-ben-wheatley","tag-heist","tag-japan","tag-minnesota","tag-mr-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18728,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18711\/revisions\/18728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}