I wasn't going to watch it since it sounded like a very generic movie, but then I saw that it was directed by the Argentinian director who made the great "Wild Tales". I went to see it without knowing much what to expect (since there were no previews for it at all) and I was very pleasantly surprised.
Hadn't heard of this at all until now.
shareThanks, will check it out
shareLoved it. We need more thrillers like these. 8/10
shareWe loved it. Had a little SE7EN to it and some Silence of the Lambs. Very enjoyable movie.
shareGreat thriller
shareAgreed, it was a solid attempt at a type of film they don't quite make anymore. The female character was particularly good; flawed while brave and smart
shareOnly problem was the forced woke bits put into it. Not talking about the female lead, that wasn't a problem. But having the lead FBI guy be gay and throwing in the dinner with his partner had nothing to do with the story so it just stuck out as woke virtue signally, you can also add to that the extensive slaughter house scene which seemed to be intended to be a way of putting down the eating of meat. I mean was there really a reason to linger on the process of butchering and skinning a cow when it had nothing to do with the story?
shareDon't forget all the usual white supremacy bullshit shoehorned into it. Some interesting scenes but another pile of woke wank on the whole.
shareOmg. Nothing "woke" about gay people having partners/spouses, working in jobs and having people over for dinner. You must live in Boise or something. Are you sitting down? There are gay people everywhere and in every job you can imagine. It's really ok.
shareOh Mabel you poor clueless girl. The whole scene of dinner with the gay boss has zero to do with the story. If it had been necessary to move the story along then it isn't a problem but when they throw something like that in that doesn't move the story then it comes across as virtue signally.
shareDidnt felt forced at all. The role could have been also just swapped to his highschool darling and it had not played out any other. If you call this woke, then you have a problem.
And the White Supremacy was also quite realistic to me, you do this shit show of a call in show and you basically invite the QAnon idiots in. But I have to agree, that it was overdone on the shop. The guy calling in at the show and show off to his team OK, but how they behaved in the shop didn't felt right to me. At that I give a point, could have been easily fixed.
I try not to pick apart movies like this but I actually thought some of it was pretty ridiculous. They think they potentially have this mass murderer marksman after the phone call to the newscast, so they fly out in a helicopter and try to apprehend four of them by themselves in the middle of a grocery store. That was their best option to handle it? They were deservingly fired after that.
I agree Wild Tales is a great movie but just because it's the same director doesn't make this any better.