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Normal review – Fargo meets The Firm in cheerfully weird Bob Odenkirk small-town thriller

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B ob Odenkirk continues his new career as the everyguy action hero in this cynically bleak gonzo actionfest, co-written by Odenkirk himself with John Wick creator Derek Kolstad. The director is Ben Wheatley, who shows the same kind of gunplay that was exhibited in his single-location mayhem spectacular Free Fire from 2017. The setting is a place of Fargo-esque wholesomeness: a little town in Minnesota called Normal where Ulysses, played by Odenkirk, shows up as the interim sheriff, a decent guy just filling in after the previous sheriff was found dead in the snow in strange circumstances. Ulysses is depressed and battling a drinking problem after an unexplained violent end to his last job, which caused him to separate from his wife. Everywhere he looks, Ulysses sees goofy, quirky, small-town normality, with no crime to solve other than petty neighbour disputes. His deputy Mike (Billy MacLellan) is a smiley and supportive lawman who is thrilled that he and his boss have almost exactly the same moustache.…

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