FROM NOW / RATED MA15+ / DIRECTOR GAVIN O’CONNOR / CAST NATALIE PORTMAN, JOEL EDGERTON, EWAN MCGREGOR, NOAH EMMERICH
CALAMITY?
CONSIDERING JANE GOT A Gun’s turbulent back story, you might expect it to be a ruinous mess, each catastrophic frame drowned out by the chirrup of casting agents’ mobiles and the Xanax-popping of anxious studio bean counters. Its director, Lynne Ramsay, walked off its Santa Fe set before the first take, while its cast rotated like the cylinder on a gunslinger’s iron. This Western seemed, for want of a better phrase, to have gone west.
Instead, the end product is a dusty revenger which, while by no means a disaster, is about as thrilling as a bowl of cold oats. Ramsay’s replacement, Gavin O’Connor, shows a keen eye for…