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- David Ayer’s The Tax Collector is worth a look for the ways it pulls together a small scale production with outsize ambitions. Bolstered by a diverse and interesting cast of a kind we don’t see nearly enough, it paints a vivid portrait of the seedier side of the Los Angeles underworld.
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A taxing and ill-advised crime drama, The Tax Collector fails to accrue much meaningful interest. Read Critics Reviews
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Aug 7, 2020 · David ( Bobby Soto) is the title character of “The Tax Collector,” a man who goes and rounds up 30% of all gang activity to kick up to the man at the top, who happens to be played by an against-type George Lopez.
Vivid crime movie done in by dull story, extreme violence. Read Common Sense Media's The Tax Collector review, age rating, and parents guide.
- David Ayer
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Bobby Soto, Shia Labeouf, George Lopez
- Suicide Squad director David Ayer returns to his gritty roots.
- Verdict
By Zaki Hasan
Updated: Apr 9, 2022 12:11 am
Posted: Aug 4, 2020 6:00 pm
The Tax Collector opens in select theaters, On Demand and Digital on August 7.
After the high-profile franchise demands of Netflix’s Bright three years ago and Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad in 2016 (which achieved box office success even as it was largely dismissed by the critical consensus), it’s understandable that writer-director David Ayer has gone smaller scale for his newest project, the indie crime thriller The Tax Collector. And while it benefits from Ayer’s considerable strengths as a filmmaker and some interesting casting choices, it also suffers from a meandering story that feels too padded even for its 95-minute runtime and a worldview that’s so bleak it threatens to collapse in on itself like a black hole.
Mind you, Ayer (who also wrote Training Day and co-wrote the first Fast and the Furious) has always excelled at placing characters up against the grimy nastiness of the world and letting the drama unfold accordingly. With Fury and Sabotage, he leveraged the iconography of stars Brad Pitt and Arnold Schwarzenegger, respectively, in just this fashion, and the results were fascinating even if flawed. It’s also what made Suicide Squad far more interesting than it’s given credit for, with the “Ayer” of it all sidetracked by the studio’s need for a candy-colored comic book product, but the resultant mix no less worth watching.
David Ayer’s The Tax Collector is worth a look for the ways it pulls together a small scale production with outsize ambitions. Bolstered by a diverse and interesting cast of a kind we don’t see nearly enough, it paints a vivid portrait of the seedier side of the Los Angeles underworld. Unfortunately, the scale of those ambitions is done a disservic...
- Zaki Hasan
Aug 6, 2020 · David Ayer’s generic gangland thriller presents a cartoonishly exaggerated showdown between good and evil.
- David Ayer
Aug 4, 2020 · In the tradition of “The Sopranos” and “Scarface,” “The Tax Collector” focuses on a subculture that sees crime as an alternate path to the American dream — an illicit workaround that (some)...
Aug 3, 2020 · Bobby Soto and Shia LaBeouf play protection racketeers facing a vicious takeover bid on their turf in South Los Angeles gangland in David Ayer's crime thriller, 'The Tax Collector.'
