“Rust” (2024) which premiered in Torun, Poland, received limited release on May 2nd.

No matter how you look at it, this film will always be overshadowed by the death of its cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

PLOT.  Briefly, a 13 year old boy (Patrick Scott McDermott as Lucas) accidently shoots and kills a man.  The boy is sentenced to hang.  Harland Rust (Alec Baldwin), the boy’s grandfather, takes the boy away in a desperate attempt to save his life.  A $1,000 bounty is placed on their capture.

The film is overly violent and I’m not surprised somebody was killed on it.  I said the same of “The Crow”, when it was released in 1994.  Whatever you think of “Rust”, no film is worth someone’s life.  Halyna is survived by her husband Matthew Hutchins and her son.

Because the film was incomplete at the time of Halyna’s death, Bianca Cline took over as cinematographer.  It’s impossible to tell who filmed what.  The church scene where Ms. Hutchins was killed was not filmed.

“Rust” is dedicated to Halyna.

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