NORMAL
Genre
Action, Crime and Thriller
Running time
90 minutes
Year
2025
Language
English and Japanese
Subtitle
English and Arabic
Country
United States of America (USA) and Canada
Director
Ben Wheatley
Bio
Producer
Marc Provissiero, Derek Kolstad, Bob Odenkirk
Cast
Bob Odenkirk, Henry Winkler, Lena Headey
Scriptwriter
Derek Kolstad
Normal's night of reckoning and west-meets-east thrills and blood-spills is dark, absurdly funny and drenched in its own B movie with A movie viewing sensibility. Back in trenchant Free Fire form, Ben Wheatley directs Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul, the Nobody movies) from a script by Odenkirk and John Wick creator Derek Kolstad. It's mid-winter, and Odenkirk is Ulysses, a laid-back, somewhat oblivious sheriff on a temporary job in a tiny Minnesota town where all is certainly not what it seems — as heavily signalled by an ultra-violent prologue featuring a yakuza standoff in Osaka. Normal is the name of this burg of 1,890 cheerful inhabitants (including cameos from Henry Winkler and Lena Headey), but the film is decidedly anything but.