The old adage that every story has been told before is true. So is the fact that, in terms of making something compelling, it’s all about how you tell that story. A man violently avenging the death of the woman he loves is something we’ve seen a million times, but there’s no reason it can’t be exciting or involving in the right hands; on the other hand, it’s just as easy to get something like Violent Ends, which feels too mundane to ever achieve much impact. Set in 1992, the film stars Billy Magnussen as Lucas Frost, who was born into a large Southern crime family but is doing his best to avoid that life. But when a case of bad timing leads to the death of his fiancée, Emma (Alexandra Shipp), during a botched robbery involving his own cousins, well, let’s just say they’ve pushed him too fa

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