Few if any filmmakers can build and breathlessly sustain visceral intensity with the command of Paul Greengrass, who brings documentary realism, kinetic energy and heart-pumping adrenaline to stories drawn from life or fiction, generally about people caught in explosive situations. The Brit director is a master of chaos. That makes him an ideal fit for The Lost Bus, which plunges us into the 2018 inferno that ripped through Northern California’s Butte County, decimating entire communities. If the human drama is seldom as alive as the flames, that’s no fault of the fine leads, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera.
About those flames: Greengrass, Dp Pål Ulvik Rokseth (who shot the director’s riveting 2018 lone-terrorist film 22 July) and an ace visual effects team led by Charlie Noble give the wildfire the qualities of an unrelenting supernatural force of destruction, without ever compromising its authenticity. The almost instantaneous spread from scattered ground…
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