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Critics Consensus: The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter wastes a promising premise and talented cast on a frustratingly uneven comedy that lacks enough laughs to forgive its narrative flaws.
Critic Consensus: The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter wastes a promising premise and talented cast on a frustratingly uneven comedy that lacks enough laughs to forgive its narrative flaws.
All Critics (23) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (16)
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter, like so many other Netflix movies, feels like a first draft that still could use some more punching up and focus.
The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter offers only the pokiest and most rote of plots.
It's salvaged by a truly genuine, sometimes great performance from Josh Brolin, but he's the only reason to take a look.
Likable, thanks to the obvious affection and compassion that the filmmakers and their leading actor have for men like Buck.
The men of Jody Hill's films contain multitudes, even if they do so from under a perfectly transparent display case.
There are some real missed opportunities here.
It's just not funny. It's earnest and heartfelt, but the jokes miss or are omitted.
It's a real bummer.
It goes on the hunt for something of sustenance but comes home mostly empty-handed, and a good Josh Brolin performance is at least some kind of consolation prize.
While The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter doesn't come close to being on-par with Hill's other work, being too mainstream and toned-down, it's still a solid watch and good for a few laughs.
Still, Hill's choices are mostly smart, and the film works well when throwing the three men - Brolin, McBride, and Jordan - together into set pieces recycled from better comedies.
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter could have been really funny, provocative, or something in between. The cast was decent. The premise was sound. And yet, it's only slightly better than an unfruitful hunting trip.
Josh Brolin is coming off one of his biggest years on film and this film has to be the biggest letdown. The McBride and Hill team have been quite successful but this one doesn't hit the highs like it should. McBride offers the comedic moments but the film is too straight to really work. I can understand why this film has a low average and it is a shame this film did not work. The central issue I had was that the film had no true identity, it attempts to capture a core story but wastes much of that time not achieving a lot. The filmmakers clearly had intent but it doesn't translate to the screen, Brolin's character is underwritten and he attempts to inject some method style performance. An interesting film but not a classic and another Netflix film that garners mixed results. 11/10/2018.
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