The Smugglers: An old-school adventure film (review)

Ethan Hawke happily plays old-fashioned heroes like Paul Newman or Steve McQueen in a friendly and entertaining film despite its flimsy storyline

Since playing the aggressive cowboy on TV (The Good Lord Bird) or being nominated for an Oscar for his disguised performances (Blue Moon), the former young leading Ethan Hawke explains that he became a character actor – an actor of composition, in good French. But he is also capable of playing old-fashioned heroes, as he proves in this very friendly and entertaining Les Contrebandiers, an old-school adventure film in which a Steve McQueen or a Paul Newman……