**By Any Means**, an upcoming historical crime thriller from director Elegance Bratton, opens in theaters September 4 with no critic reviews available yet on Rotten Tomatoes. Trader sentiment centers on the film’s high-profile cast—including Mark Wahlberg as mob hitman Greg Scarpa and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as a young Black FBI agent—alongside Bratton’s rising profile after *The Inspection* and a true-story premise drawn from 1960s Mississippi civil rights cases. Multiple trailers and featurettes released through August have driven visibility and positioned the Paramount release as a Labor Day counter-programming play. Early audience tracking and industry buzz around the provocative premise will shape initial Tomatometer movement once reviews arrive post-premiere, though historical dramas with violent elements often face divided critical response.