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Post by timshelboy on Aug 1, 2022 23:34:44 GMT
4/10 by the numbers
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Post by Nora on Aug 5, 2022 3:22:05 GMT
jesus thus was bad. I owe Nope a Big apology. This was practically unbearable.
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Post by mecano04 on Aug 10, 2022 1:09:18 GMT
It's basically every clichés about secret agents/agencies/cover operation mixed in one movie, every single step of the way , which could have worked without being original but the "blend" is poorly made. From the story telling to the characters, everything is cliché.
I mean, here is the summary without spoiling everything:
Basically, a guy (Gosling) sitting in jail for the next 30 something years gets a visit from a man offering the opportunity to get out early, on the condition that he works for him (basically a "secret" government program that tries to uses criminals as agents).
One day, his mission doesn't go as planned and he goes rogue because he learns something about his bosses/agency he works for.
Since he goes rogue, his boss sends all they have after him and he is pursued until he either dies or solves all this.
So he travels around the globe, fight some bad guys and finally has a chance to solve all this.
Had it stuck with a darker or more serious tone, maybe it would have worked better but it borrows stuff from La Femme Nikita (the one with Parillaud not Fonda) and the Bourne movies (just to name those) and mixes it with scenes taken straight from Shoot'em up.
The result feels like you're watching a comic book adaptation because the action can be way over the top in regard to the laws of physics with a teenage-audience level of humor while also having some almost teeth-grinding violent or torture scenes. Even the bad guys feel Bond-ish.
I second the 4/10
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