Taken from real life, “Texas Killing Fields” is a taut thriller about the search for a serial killer. Commonplace as this type of movie is, it’s an exciting manhunt for the slayer of victims left in the swamplands of a small Texas town. Resident homicide detective Mike Souder (Sam Worthington) is teamed up with seasoned new partner Brian Hay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) transferred from another locale. Sometimes the pair locks horns while following clues lest another fatality occurs. The piously religious Brian is married, while Mike is single, and they work with another law officer, Pam (Jessica Chastain), Mike’s ex-wife. When a locale girl, Anne Sliger (Chloe Grace Moretz)/”Kick-Ass”) who lives with her slatternly mother and her two crude companions vanishes, the detectives fear the worst. There’s tension chasing after suspects and after a shoot-out, it’s up to one lone detective to track the killer to his lair, and fervently trying to save the latest victim.
Ami Canaan Mann (daughter of director Michael Mann) adroitly directs the thriller. Although Jessica Chastain is effective in her sparse screen time, this is really a two man operation of Worthington and Morgan carrying the movie.
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