Nothing New, and Too Long to Forgive

B52 rating: 4.5/10

I'll be honest: The Deputy was barely watchable for me.

The premise is simple enough, a part-time deputy trying to prove himself over one chaotic night, and it could have worked as a tight, punchy thriller. Instead it drags badly. The whole thing feels like a 45-minute script that has been stretched and padded to fill roughly 100 minutes, and you can feel every bit of that padding. Scenes linger longer than they need to, and the pace never recovers.

It also offers nothing new. I kept waiting for a fresh angle or a surprise that would lift it above the usual small-town crime formula, and it never arrived. Everything felt familiar from other crime thrillers I've seen.

The acting is passable. Nobody embarrasses themselves, but nobody gives a performance I'll remember either.

4.5/10: Forgettable and slow, and a script this thin is hard to forgive when it runs this long.