You can – should you choose to brave a public outing in the middle of a pandemic – go see this on the big screen if you want. This isn't some Netflix drop bundled with a hundred other features.
That alone makes Let Him Go something special. You might catch one or two in August or February, but low-key dramas made specifically for older people are rare these days. Hollywood stopped sending films like Let Him Go to theaters several years ago. That doesn't make it any less satisfying. Ultimately this is a film for grandparents, so the bloodshed stays on the respectable side. The real question is whether the third act will be ultra-violent or just medium-violent. Once we meet Blanche and her boys, the rest of the film can only play out one or two different ways. Having said that, the film could have used one more good scene of menace from her and Bill. By the end of Let Him Go, you might be a little tired of hearing people say the word "Weboy" with dread, but there is no denying Blanche has her entire neck of the woods terrified of the Weboy name and, if nothing else, you really do want to see her go down. We don't get a strong idea why Blanche is so evil, but by golly, she sure is evil. But really, it's all about Lesley Manville's Blanche. The film grants extra character to sub-boss Bill Weboy, played with evil charm by Jeffrey Donovan.
Nevertheless, this Duel of the Grandparents directly dictates her fate and she's less involved than you might expect.Īs for the Weboys, three of them are just generically menacing. Instead, we're to all-out assume she prefers living with the epitome of gentle Americana to getting abused every day. The film presents her with two "my way or the highway" scenarios – one evil, one supposedly wholesome – but doesn't spend much time considering her perspective. While they are at it, please do not spend too much time thinking about Lorna, their son's widow and grandchild's mother. It's not a strong plan, and the closer they get to their goal, the more ominous this Weboy clan begins to sound. As such, Margaret and George Kent – er, Blackledge – decide to find their grandson and get him back. And he was already off to a bad start by not being their perfect dead son.
So he is what you might call a bad person. Before they go, however, Margaret witnesses this new husband hit Lorna and the grandson. A few years later, this widow, Lorna (Kayli Carter), remarries into some scary clan known as the Weboy family and suddenly disappears with the grandson a short time after that. George and Margaret Blackledge have a perfect son, so great we don't really get to meet him before he suffers a fatal accident that leaves his wife widowed and infant boy with no father. Let Him Go essentially tells the story of dueling grandparents. Which is appreciated because Lane's nemesis, played with seething, villainous glee by Lesley Manville, has four bulldogs of her own. Her Margaret Blackledge is driven almost to the point of recklessness, and it's hardly a surprise when we eventually learn her character used to break wild horses. Great as Costner is, Lane is the one who pushes this story forward and propels its main action. Instead, it belongs to Diane Lane as his wife, Margaret. But Let Him Go isn't really Costner's movie.
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