Out of the Furnace (2013) (Click on the title for my full review.)

A Man (Christian Bale) goes looking for his younger brother (Casey Affleck) after he goes missing.  He will stop at nothing to get his brother back and release his own form of justice on whoever is responsible for taking him.

The film is directed by Scott Cooper.  Who is Scott Cooper?  I had to look him up too.  The only other movie that Cooper directed is Crazy Heart (2009).  Jeff Bridges won an Academy Award for Best Actor for Crazy Heart.  Cooper has received a lot of critical acclaim for that film.  It appears like Cooper just might have another Oscar contender on his hands with this new film Out of the Furnace.

The rest of the noteworthy cast includes Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard, Dendrie Taylor, and Tom Bower.

If you get a group of actors like that together to make a movie, it’s hard to expect anything less than excellence.

The film is set to release on 12/06/13.

I’ll be in the theatre in December to let you know if this film meets my expectations.