A great 90's crime movie.

Synopsis makes it sound like a High Noon remake so I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it isn't. Very entertaining.

An interesting neo-noir in which fugitives inexorably head from L.A. to Arkansas, One False Move gives equal time to the desperate criminals, led by co-writer Billy Bob Thornton (no one can say Goddammit like he can), and the overenthusiastic small town police chief working with detectives from the big city, played Bill Paxton is one of his better roles. He's really the main draw here, turning an "aw shucks" character into a Noir lead over time. But does that save him or doom him? I'm less impressed with Cynda Williams' femme fatale(ish), who seems to be playing it as if high on heroin, even though the drug they seem to be taking is cocaine. She's just a little too sleepy. Another bit I found distracting is the small town being called Star City, but that's my comic book brain screaming at me. One False Move plays into some unflattering stereotypes across the board, but as with Paxton's character, there's a surface to be scratched.