Set in St.
Louis but shot in coastal Virginia, attempting to wrestle tough sociopolitical issues while sporting the neon hues of a stylized neo-noir, “The Gateway” lets itself get pulled in too many directions for any of them to be well-realized.
Nonetheless, this crime melodrama represents an advance for commercials and music video director Michele Civetta over his first feature, the occult muddle “Agony,” with improved control over performances and pacing.
The implausible but diverting Lionsgate release is launching in limited theaters, on demand and digital Sept.
3, with disc formats following a week later.Raised in a foster home after his mother’s fatal Od and his father’s abandonment, Parker Jode (Shea Whigham) is a still-punchy former pro fighter who now tries repairing other people’s families as a state social worker.
In that role, he’s developed a paternal interest in young Ashley (Taegen Burns), even driving her
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