The Place Beyond the Pines Movie Download

8 / 10

Some Daring Getaways
Other than the Donald Strachey series of movies starring Chad Allen, I’ve never seen the Capital District of New York State used as a film location before. The Place Beyond The Pines is the story of two men whose fateful meeting one day set in motion a series of events that would ultimately involve their teen sons.

Shot on location in Albany, Schenectady, and several surrounding small towns, this film casts Ryan Gosling as a daredevil carnival motorcycle stunt rider who gives Eva Mendes a bundle of joy in their encounter.

But Gosling is a responsible sort, sort of. He wants to do the right thing for Mendes so he takes up bank robbery where his skill as a rider has him execute some daring getaways. She’s got money now to support their kid, but Gosling dares the odds once too often and in a fateful encounter with rookie Schenectady cop Bradley Cooper, he’s killed in a shootout.

After that the focus is on Cooper who’s ambitious sort, his father is Harris Yulin a Supreme Court judge. He builds from this incident which makes him a decorated hero in a gambit from LA Confidential, he turns on several of his fellow officers who were corrupt in any event and breaks the blue wall of silence.

And in fifteen years as Cooper is embarking on a run for statewide office both his son Emory Cohen and Gosling’s son Dane DeHaan go to the same school and it leads to some interesting results.

My only problem with The Place Beyond The Pines is that Gosling’s character is so charismatic that the film slackens off, once he’s killed off halfway through the movie. Still it’s a great story with some riveting performances by players of several generations.Read More