Granted, the balancing act doesn't always go as planned, and there are certainly some tonal issues in a number of scenes — ahem, the love story that's soldered in;
the ridiculous gun fight — but it's a sour character study that's always held at arm's length, all while you're duck - taped to a chair wondering what's going on.
Citing the
ridiculous fear that addressing animal
fighting would ultimately abridge
gun rights, Dan Boren equated strengthening the law with a threat to Oklahoma's sporting traditions; he sided with criminals rather than be seen as soft on animals.