The Mustang (2019)

THE MUSTANG  (2019)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
    Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruce Dern, Gideon Adlon,
    Jason Mitchell, Josh Stewart, Connie Britton
A convict doing hard time at a Nevada state prison catches 0n with a work crew assigned to break and train wild horses. The metaphor might be obvious, but if you're in the market for a feel-good redemption story, it's probably not this. The protagonist, played with scary conviction by Matthias Schoenaerts, admits he's "not good with people," and that's putting it mildly. He's a violent sociopath who probably needs to be confined somewhere for the protection of society at large. Catch him at a bad moment on a bad day and he'll kill you without thinking. The movie's a tough, uncompromising look at prison life, enough to make you consider that if you're going to get caught committing a felony, you probably don't want to do it in Nevada. Bruce Dern, who seems to have cornered the market in crotchety old men, plays the crotchety old horse trainer who supervises the inmate wranglers.