{"id":18871,"date":"2020-08-07T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=18871"},"modified":"2020-08-07T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:28:16","slug":"the-tax-collector-review-shia-labeoufs-racist-caricature-isnt-the-only-problem-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=18871","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Tax Collector\u2019 Review: Shia LaBeouf\u2019s Racist Caricature Isn\u2019t the Only Problem Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDavid Ayer’s revenge thriller is mostly just a slog of vulgar threats and violent outbursts.
\nShia LaBeouf can give complex, transportive performances, with rough and edgy bursts of messy antics slathered on top of soul. Sadly, \u201cThe Tax Collector\u201d is not \u201cAmerican Honey.\u201d In writer-director David Ayer\u2019s bland L.A. crime saga about a pair of drug lord minions caught in the crosshairs of a larger war, LaBeouf stares and struts his way through a cartoonish and culturally insensitive performance as a troublemaking thug named Creeper that most certainly did not require him to get his character\u2019s name tattooed across his chest.
\nIf the two-bit Latino burlesque (more whiteboy with Latino aspirations, but whatever) was the only problem with \u201cThe Tax Collector,\u201d it would have to work overtime to make up for it. Yet even when \u201cThe Tax Collector\u201d finds a steadier purpose as a taut revenge thriller, it\u2019s mostly just a slog of vulgar threats and violent outbursts, trading substance for anger until the credits bring some measure of peace.\n<\/div>\n
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