Messy and confused, the film is a mishmash of tropes from Shakespeare, heist movies, family melodrama, and romance novels hastily thrown together.
Phantom Halo
Two brothers, one dream and a hundred ways to get it.
2014 · 1h 27m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Antonia Bogdanovich
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Phantom Halo
Overview
Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do bring home. They hatch a plan for a robbery but at what price?
Director and cast
- Antonia Bogdanovich Director
- Rebecca Romijn as Ms. Rose
- Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Samuel Emerson
- Luke Kleintank as Beckett Emerson
- Jordan Dunn as Little Larry
- Tobin Bell as Smashmouth
- Gbenga Akinnagbe as Roman
- Susan Park as Grace
- Sebastian Roché as Warren Emerson
- Ugo Bianchi as Pablo
- Shawn Woods as Mr. Shee
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
None of it is convincing in the least, although the actors do as much as they can. "Phantom Halo" ends up feeling like a mash-up of two many other mediocre films.
A dark, satisfying work that can be forgiven for the moments it succumbs to Hollywood convention.
This film keeps reaching for cleverness but comes up with a fistful of cliches.
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