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3.0 out of 5 starstoo generic for a Guy Ritchie film..would've been a better scooby-do tragedy than hero pile
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2022
spoiler alert: This story is below remedial level for the serious tone of the cast (and director) of this flick.
Even as a bucket of bullets movie it's too unreal to follow.
The good is the casting.
Spot on with the casting...not sure why Dana is even in it....pointless and essentially a time filler. Yet the solemn tone, the seriousness of some scenes, the determination of men is well portrayed. Right up until the glaring kick in the shins that shine a light on the broken mechanical toy waking you from that dream in an ear piercing array of annoyance causing me to ask "why is this happening?"...
The timeline and camps of who is on what side switches (okay, that might work) yet it isn't fluid.
If this is a revenge movie, why bother to get day jobs?
if this is a deep black market, underworld movie, why get day jobs?
if this is a mafia or military gangsta movie....why get day jobs?
Why all the day jobs?
There isn't 5 minutes that goes by without a "what tha" moment of why is this written in?
building a story you might think, right?
Okay, I tried to follow that to it's end (which is so neatly tied up it's likely to find a place in a museum for the best woven rug ever).
three minutes of movie spoiler: I mean to say the getaway just so happens to have ONLY two atv's and then to drive to a single getaway car...that could've just as easily been parked where the atv's were?... and for the hideout to be where again....? oh yeah, mailing address?... and it gets worse the longer I think about it.
Now just after halfway through I thought I was going to have to re-watch this movie b/c I missed a connection or tie in, or some other explanation of how groups connect and that insignificant timeline jumping.
Nope. Stay with it, watch it all the way through, and by the end you'll see it was perhaps a money grab for Guy Ritchie's failed apprentice riding his coat tails or Guy Ritchie phoned this one it over zoom.
I don't know how to follow this story. Either it's way too short or it should've been less than 9 minutes total. If this had been Guy Ritchie's first movie it would've been his last.
As for Jason Statham, he's as solid as marble and helps build the theme yet imo is way too ruthless for his intelligence. If he felt the pain we're expected to believe him enduring, there's no way it would've ended the way it was cut.
The only way this movie could've been saved is if it had a scooby-do ending where his wife was the last man standing (so to speak) and H finally realized it was his fault all along. I know that won't make sense if you haven't watched it but that's the only ending that might've made sense imo. b/c of how ridiculous the script is.