Bobby Soto and Shia LaBeouf star as protection racketeers facing a vicious takeover bid in David Ayer's South Los Angeles gangland thriller 'The Tax Collector.' Read THR's review:
Violent Los Angeles street culture on both sides of the law has been an abiding fascination in David Ayer's output, notably in his bruising screenplay for. The buddy dynamic and gritty milieu of that 2012 film invigorate the best elements of, the writer-director's return to a smaller-scale project after taking a critical hammering with the big-budget, high-concept outings of. "So why another L.A. crime movie?" asks Ayer in his Director's Statement. Why, indeed.
The vaunted authenticity legitimized by Ayer's upbringing in South L.A. in the 1970s and '80s in this case doesn't mean he has a fresh perspective. The conflict of a loyal lieutenant in a criminal organization who compartmentalizes his life into hard-core career thug on one side, devoted paterfamilias on the other — "God allows me to walk from the darkness and come back into the light," says David — by now seems a standard gangster trope.
Alexis is also the point person who communicates directly with Wizard, the overlord of the crime organization whose current situation is revealed in the film's closing scene. While David prays to Jesus to keep his family and their palatial Spanish-style home safe, Conejo's religious rituals make Santeria look like Sunday school. The movie veers into grotesquerie as he prays at an unholy altar for protection in the oncoming turf war, bathing in the blood of a human sacrifice in a room that looks like Keith Haring threw a Dia de los Muertos party.
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