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I don't normally click anything recommended to me by any video service but it's blowing up on the internet so I tried it.
Charlize Theron stars as a 3,000 year-old discount Sarah Connor who can't die except she can and is losing her immortality. She pals around with three other fellow immortals: a French deserter from the Napoleonic Wars (definitely playing to type) and a Muslim and an Italian who met on opposite sides of the Crusades, killed one another, then started butt-fuckin'. A black actress with not much range is the audience surrogate as a female Marine who is killed in Afghanistan and discovers her own immortality. Together they ostensibly Kill People to make the world A Better Place.
It's a Netflix action film. It's not quite a superhero movie and not quite an action thriller. There are a few good set pieces, a twist I called 20 minutes into the film and one or two more interesting concepts that I would've liked to have been developed further (though the ending unsurprisingly sets up a sequel). Oh and all the bad guys with any involvement in the story are white, white, white.
It was based on a comic book I guess but the movie isn't interesting enough to get me to find it to read for free somewhere. I guess the writer also wrote the screenplay and insisted on having a happy gay couple in the story. It has probably the cringiest telling off of an awful mean man bigot I've seen in a while.
I did like that the immortals all felt and acted more like a unit than a family and I appreciated that the action seemed like a mix between John Wick gun combat and actual squad tactics (inasmuch as you'd find in a film like this).
It was okay. As usual with anything the internet shits its pants over, I can see why normies love it. Many people are killed via shots to the head despite all of them wearing head protection. Whatever.
Charlize Theron stars as a 3,000 year-old discount Sarah Connor who can't die except she can and is losing her immortality. She pals around with three other fellow immortals: a French deserter from the Napoleonic Wars (definitely playing to type) and a Muslim and an Italian who met on opposite sides of the Crusades, killed one another, then started butt-fuckin'. A black actress with not much range is the audience surrogate as a female Marine who is killed in Afghanistan and discovers her own immortality. Together they ostensibly Kill People to make the world A Better Place.
It's a Netflix action film. It's not quite a superhero movie and not quite an action thriller. There are a few good set pieces, a twist I called 20 minutes into the film and one or two more interesting concepts that I would've liked to have been developed further (though the ending unsurprisingly sets up a sequel). Oh and all the bad guys with any involvement in the story are white, white, white.
It was based on a comic book I guess but the movie isn't interesting enough to get me to find it to read for free somewhere. I guess the writer also wrote the screenplay and insisted on having a happy gay couple in the story. It has probably the cringiest telling off of an awful mean man bigot I've seen in a while.
I did like that the immortals all felt and acted more like a unit than a family and I appreciated that the action seemed like a mix between John Wick gun combat and actual squad tactics (inasmuch as you'd find in a film like this).
It was okay. As usual with anything the internet shits its pants over, I can see why normies love it. Many people are killed via shots to the head despite all of them wearing head protection. Whatever.
