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Just way too implausible

posted 4 years ago by SlackerInc (1101)
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It was cool to get back out to a movie theater after well over a year, but the movie itself was just too outlandish and cheesy, even though Bob Odenkirk was charming as ever.

I mean, I don’t demand strict realism in my violent entertainment (I loved THE AMERICANS and FARGO on FX, and BREAKING BAD and BETTER CALL SAUL on AMC), but this was a bridge or two too far. If one guy is going to take on an army, I need him to have a radioactive spider bite, or high tech armor, or something. (If “Nobody” had been in the Afghani cave instead of Tony Stark, he could have skipped the surreptitious armor construction and taken out those terrorists with his bare hands!)

[–] horrorfan000 (2307) 4 years ago

Yea but it's easier to swallow than the countless feminist movies and tv shows featuring small lanky 110-120 pound women kicking the asses of multiple men twice their size physically and muscularly without breaking a sweat.

[–] macken74 (653) 3 years ago

Absolutely agree !!! Can't stand those type of movies !!!

[–] necramonium (224) 4 years ago

It is suppose to be cheesy and outlandish, and btw, it did happen in real life where one guy would fight against a many enemies. There are multiple stories of a single soldier holding out against a overwhelming force of enemies. Audie Murphy for example held back a whole company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Yep, and he was supposed to have been a government assassin to begin with so it wasn't as if we were supposed to be the guy next door did all this. Not to mention that unlike so many movies where the hero is untouched, the was fucked up to some degree in most every fight sequences so at least they were having him pay the price of fighting.

[–] SlackerInc (1101) 4 years ago

Except he never showed lasting effects. He broke his freaking wrist to get the handcuffs off, and then used his hands just fine for the rest of the movie.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Did he break his wrist? I thought he was supposed to have dislocated his thumb. If that was what he did it wouldn't have caused lasting problems, I've seen people do the dislocation of their thumb to get out of handcuffs and it didn't seem to cause them any problem after they did it. They just popped their thumb back in place which sounded like they were pulling a chicken apart... but I think it cause more mental pain to those of us watching than it did to the guy that did it to himself.

[–] Lackzoom (29) 4 years ago

If you thought he broke his wrist then you didn't have a good grasp of this movie anyway.

[–] SlackerInc (1101) 4 years ago

Mmmhmmm. So it's your contention that all the punishment his non-superpowered pushing-sixty body took should have in no way cramped his style for the final battle? Okay, chief.

[–] JoWilli (19957) 4 years ago

both of his wrists were broken and then fine for the rest of the movie.

[–] eisbock (42) 3 years ago

I think he broke both of his legs at one point too.

[–] warrior-poet (1357) 4 years ago

He didn't break anything, but dislocated. And it was his thumb, not wrist. He dislocated his thumb.

You're still correct to a certain degree, however, about how he kept going despite his injuries in an implausible way, but that was actually the point, as it is with any action movie.

[–] SlackerInc (1101) 4 years ago

To be fair, I'm not into what are typically* called "action movies" (TAKEN, JOHN WICK, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, etc.). I went to see this because I really like Bob Odenkirk. So I guess this just confirms that the genre is not for me.

*I say "typically called" because there are other genres of movies with plenty of action in them that I do like: heist films; superhero movies (particularly MCU); stuff by the Coen brothers like NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and TRUE GRIT; Quentin Tarantino flicks like PULP FICTION, JACKIE BROWN, even DEATH PROOF. So I like movies with action in them, just not "action movies" per se, which apparently require a certain kind of macho absurdity that takes me out of the movie.

[–] warrior-poet (1357) 4 years ago

Yeah those type of action flicks are definitely cartoony and all about style, without much substance.

[–] BeaSouth (3283) 4 years ago

The stab wound he suffered on the bus should’ve put him in the hospital a couple of days but after his wife patched him up, you never heard of it again. It reminded me of those old westerns where the guy had a huge saloon brawl and gets hit by a chair and repeatedly punched in the face and gets not a single bruise.

[–] warrior-poet (1357) 4 years ago

Or many action movies from the 80's, as well as some in the 90's, where the hero getting stabbed and shot was somehow only mere flesh wounds, unless it served the story to have a more serious impact (not to dissimilar from the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "It's only a flesh wound!")
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[–] DrRed (536) 3 years ago

How did he lead a successful counterattack if he was out of ammo? What was he supposed to use; Harsh Language?

[–] SageMaster33 (875) 4 years ago

which movie is..?

[–] LetoAtreides (559) 4 years ago

I think a slightly better story and less cheesy action could have made this movie even better.

The ending with his dad and friend fighting what seemed like an infinite number of "Russians commandos" was just too ridiculous. They arrived in just a few SUV, but the movie made it seems like they had buses full of bad guys.

[–] SlackerInc (1101) 4 years ago

Indeed!

[–] Tabbycat (878) 3 years ago

Agreed.
Just another predictable Hollywood fantasy shoot ‘em up cartoon … like we don’t have enough of those? No connection to reality, none intended. Stupid.

Not as bad as John Wick, but that was a terrible flick that somehow made enough to spawn several sequels. Expect the same here.

[–] SlackerInc (1101) 3 years ago

I have never seen the John Wick movies, but I know a number of people who think they are awesome. Your comment here tends to reinforce my initial reluctance to watch them.

[–] wrlord (1141) 3 years ago

Implausible? Are you actually taking it seriously?

[–] SlackerInc (1101) 3 years ago

The tone of the movie asks to be taken seriously. It’s not THE SUICIDE SQUAD.

[–] wrlord (1141) 3 years ago

No it doesn't. It starts that way but by the time of the over-the-top violent finale we're firmly and joyously in cartoon-land.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

It starts that way

This is the problem. The movie has no consistency.