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Less yappin’ would have whittled Mob Land down from a bloated 111 minutes, to its benefit. It’s a violent melodrama with a high body count that aspires to backroads Greek tragedy, but instead feels increasingly ersatz.

An intriguingly dark small-town thriller with a compellingly downbeat, nasty edge. It also marks out writer-director Nicholas Maggio as a talent to watch.

Travolta brings little in the way of gravitas to the supposedly sage lawman nearing retirement and facing health issues, but he's marginally less clichéd or cartoon-like than the paint-by-numbers bad guys.

In the world of Mob Land, nothing good lasts. Disappointingly, despite the cast’s best efforts and a few striking visual flourishes, nothing good lasts in the film itself either.