Sentences with phrase «criminal lynchpin»

Casting himself as a heavy in his own film, Haley gets several of the film's more flowery, belabored passages, though he fares better with these than Edi Gathegi (better known as the dreadlocked vampire in the first Twilight film) as the kidnapped son of a black criminal lynchpin (presented so unenthusiastically it makes the crime syndicate run by Harry Belafonte in Altman's Kansas City seem more like Scorsese).