IN his latest Netflix thriller Rebel Ridge, writer and director Jeremy Saulnier proves non-violence can be as powerful as violence in the face of police corruption, right from its opening sequence.
On his way to deliver the money to post his cousin’s bail, which would stop the latter from entering prison, United States Marine Corp veteran Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) is knocked off his bicycle by a Shelby Springs police cruiser.
Despite his explanation, the money is seized by corrupt police officers under suspicion of being drug currency.
As he repeatedly attempts to retrieve the money, the situation escalates in complexity as the scale of the police corruption pits Richmond and court clerk Summer McBride (AnnaSophia Robb) against Sandy Burnne (Don Johnson), the police chief of the Shelby Spring Police Department along with the other police officers.
Rebel Ridge then becomes Rambo: First Blood and Reacher, except without the gore and gratuitous violence.
