As a fertile creator, Taylor Sheridan stands behind the numerous TV shows (along with some movie scripts) and regularly directs a number of episodes of his series. However, he still finds the time and breadth of the range of production of several projects that are not his creations. One of them is Brian Helgeland's crime thriller, Finestkind, who came frivolously and went to Paramount+ at the end of 2023. The movie is especially strange, then it didn't get much of the fanfare, because there is a damn good team, including Ben Foster, Tommy Lee Onesons, Toby Wallace and Enena Ortega, among others. Not to mention that her director was behind such classics as "Message" in 1999 with Mel Gibson and 2001 "Knight Story" with the late hit Ledger.

If you look at it a little closer, however, you will see that it is not that Surprisingly that he was thrown and immediately forgotten on Paramount+, which are usually champions in everything Sheridan has a connection. "Finestkind" was practically destroyed by critics after his publication and did not do much better with the audience. As usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle: Helgland's characteristic is not desirable in itself, but also lacks something extraordinary to write at home.

For Brian Helgeland's loan, his film, which also wrote it, at least aims to show a community we don't see it often in films. Set up at Bedford Bedford, Massachusetts, Finestkind follows the family of fisherman Eldridge: Tom (Ben Foster), his father Ray (Tommy Lee Onesons) and his younger half -brother Charlie (Toby Wallace). Charlie is an unhappy college participant who visits his brother in the hope of becoming a member of his fishing fisher's team. Tom doesn't take it right away because he's not sure if it's really what his brother wants or needs him, but he eventually surrenders and welcomes Charlie on his boat. But after the two sailed along with the fishing excursion crew, the Tom ship is undergoing an internal explosion and sinking as everyone manages to escape.

Accused of the accident, Tom is fighting his boss, who ends up firing. Then his distant father, Ray, approaches him and offers him to captain his ship, The Finestkind. It was left with a lot of choice as a new unemployed, Tom accepts the offer. Meanwhile, Charlie is developing a crush on a local drug dealer named Mabel (Ortega), and a long time ago, the film turns into a strange crime odyssey that includes illegal fishing, heroin smuggling and unwanted problems with local criminals. It is a kind of cliché-crime B-movie with a subordinate story for which shops for renting video earlier.

The cast is solid-only Foster, Onesons and Ortega-and they deliver as much as the material allows them, but the script loses its road pretty early and calms down for semi-solutions and meaningless plots that give nothing but rolls. It is a shame because there is certainly the potential to show this kind of working class community of fishermen-many of them coming from broken and dysfunctional families-while trying to move in life in a profession that is getting harder to earn a living. But "Finestkind" completely certainly promising, and Taylor Sheridan produced or not, wind as an average and forgotten tremor that flies under the radars of most viewers for a reason.