Let Him Go

Let Him Go

Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

  • Released: 2020-11-05
  • Runtime: 114 minutes
  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Thrillers
  • Stars: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Kayli Carter, Lesley Manville, Will Brittain, Jeffrey Donovan, Booboo Stewart, Ryan Bruce, Otto Hornung, Bram Hornung, Connor Mackay, Adam Stafford, Greg Lawson, Bradley Stryker, William Hochman, John Treleaven, Heather Lea MacCallum, Ryan Northcott, Ravonna Dow, Kira Bradley, Aidan Moreno, Judith Buchan, Marilyn Potts, Vanessa Holmes, Tayden Marks, Bryn Roy, Finn Lee-Epp, Caillou Pettis, Will Hochman
  • Director: Thomas Bezucha
 Comments
  • desertrose-62611 - 21 January 2024
    Okay
    Engaged by the two main characters however the ending was dumb. The first hour gets into their lives and how they lived. Listening to the crazy mother inlaw gave me "August Osage" vibes. If you enjoyed that movie, I suspect you'll sorta like this one. I really wished the ending matched the impression Diane Lanes character gave in the beginning of the movie. However she was the biggest disappointment nor was she believable. I will say I was happy to see them together in a movie. I believe they're great actors who deserve more roles, hopefully that will happen. The scenery was beautiful so there's that.
  • petsitterlyn-49012 - 20 April 2023
    It was ok, entertained me for a couple of hours.
    Like other reviewers, I found Lane's character self centered to the point of sacrificing others. When she told Lorna she wanted to take the boy without inviting her too, I thought "how awful." Then when she didn't ask Peter to go home with her, I thought, "ugh." I've always believed in any relationship, one loves more than the other, and that's true of Costner's character. Lane's put herself first, Costner's sacrificed himself for her desires. The Weboy Family...well, I've known a family or two that ferocious and led by heartless matriarchs and where the next generation or two follow that hateful and controlling lead. All in all, the movie was an okay watch, entertaining, but left me definitely not liking the characters in it. Hopefully it wasn't based on a true story.
  • muratmihcioglu - 4 January 2023
    Worst Costner movie. Thanks also to Woke Virtue Signaling
    The first half was kinda bearable, though extremely slow. As it got more and more clear that the core of the story was really flawed, I lowered my expectations.

    You need to have missed out on dozens of cool western and horror movies in order to be impressed by anything in this confused narrative. The void is right there till the early moments: Why does she marry a random dude she barely knows? And how? Had the mother of her deceased husband cared even slightly about the future of the bride and the grandson, this wouldn't have happened in the first place.

    The heroine of this movie is actually the root problem with why things get derailed more and more all the time. And we learn better in retrospect how inconsistent she has been. When you look deep down into the story, this is about two aging, authoriatarian women who confront each other at the expense of wasting the men, woman, and kid around them. Diane Lane's character is no less deranged than Blanche, as per the outcome.

    The side stories like the native guy who had been stripped off from his family and culture. True, these stories need be told in order to expose how bad things were for them. But not like this! Not to sideline another story to fill the woke virtue signaling quota.

    There was more to how the trend took over this western-ish story: "Oh come on!" I said when they began to push in anti-"antisemetic" virtue signaling over pork chops. Jeez... You can't be a decent storyteller if the least important thing for you is the very core of the actual story you are telling.

    In what way do they imagine that, we will convinced the kid would grow up better under the conditions he ends up with, following a trauma of violence? Watch this from the point of view of the kid and you'll see the whole deal is bogus.

    Adapted from a novel alright, one I haven't read. But I'm pretty sure the "Hollywoodization" of this sucks mostly because such things were either planted in or overblown for the sake of coming up with a "producable" script.

    I admire Kevin Costner. He's starred in several great westerns. Open Range, Wyatt Earp, Silverado, to nake a few. See, Dances With Wolves is not even among my favorites from his filmography.

    But, man, if you have Costner starring in a movie, respect the pillars of the genre and the story.

    This is a B-movie but for its looks.
  • jimbo-53-186511 - 22 November 2022
    In the end it's just about worthwhile, but the glacial pacing will prove problematic to some
    When their son is killed in mysterious circumstances, their daughter-in-law Lorna marries another man named Donnie. However, when Margaret witnesses Donnie striking both Lorna and their grandson Jimmy Margaret decides to stage an intervention. Before she has chance to do this, Donnie and Lorna have moved without informing George and Margaret. Determined not to give up, Margaret and George end up tracking down Donnie and his family, but they aren't quite prepared for the Weboy's who are practically certifiable...

    Let Him Go is one of those films where I can't bring myself to find any major faults with it, but at the same time can't really grow to totally love it. I will try to explain in the following paragraphs...

    To begin with, I found everything began rather abruptly; James dies, the family grieve, Lorna marries someone else who turns out to be a nutter, but this is all blitzed through as though the script had been put through a food blender. There's no time for the audience to get to grips with/digest the events that have been presented.

    Perhaps this is part of the problem as once Donnie and Lorna upend and leave we have Margaret and George trying to track them down (this is the boring part of the film where not much of interest happens including a pointless and inconsequential interaction with Peter).

    With the help of creepy Bill the Blackledge's do get closer to their grandson, but when they meet Blanche (the matriarch of the family) they know that their rescue mission is going to be anything but straight-forward.

    Whilst it's a little slow and ponderous in the first half it does improve in the second half when we meet the barmy Weboy family (Donnie's antics at the start are merely the tip of the iceberg) and it soon becomes clear who is pushing his buttons. There's a lot of tension and incident that make the second half worthwhile, but I couldn't help but wish that the first half was more interesting.

    One final thing that I would like to add is that I couldn't shake the notion that Let Him Go had a whiff of its own importance permeating the air, but hey that might just be me.

    As I've said, Let Him Go is ultimately worthwhile, but you'll need a lot of patience in order to truly be able to enjoy it.
  • jrlevinson - 8 August 2022
    Pointless, gratuitous violence
    Unable to tell the story with elegance or subtlety, this movie resorts to over-the-top violence. What a waste of talented actors and my time. Shame.

    Spare yourself the experience. There's enough ugliness in the world already.
  • thegreenarrow-28184 - 4 March 2022
    Boring
    Got about half and hour into it, one of the most boring movies iv ever seen, awful, just awful. Thats about all i have to say about that..................