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Complete waste of time; hard to think of a single redeeming feature.
It really takes skill to make a boring adventure film, but they certainly managed!
I agree. Killing the Colombian brothel owner was an impulsive act fuelled by his drunkenness, nothing else.
All right. I should’ve guessed
Have to agree. I wasn’t too familiar with him but I see now the guy’s going places.
What is NOES, anyway? There seems to be nothing under that name in his filmography
Agree. He has style and didn’t take the easy road, both in terms of cinematography and screenwriting.
You can make fun of my post all you want but we all know a competent screenwriter wouldn’t have left out scenes like those. Especially in a pretty long film, which had plenty of time to bore you with some pointless romance,though.
Same here. I’m perplexed this film got such high ratings.
I disagree on the quality of the dialogue; it’s well above standard in this type of actioners.
One has to be really dumb to think that riding a high-end motorcycle while not being able to buy a couple rounds at a bar can look remotely cool to other people.
The plane crash, I get it, showing Maverick’s reckless personality is what really matters.
Rape is rape. You could've been raped by the most handsome man in the world and that would have been traumatic anyway. Another question is if Clooney would have to resort to rape to bed the women, like presumably Weinstein did.
Hard to say. I’d say metaphorical because when she encounters Sparks the next day he says something like ‘ready for another ride?’ which sort of indicates that the ride on the bonnet was the worst part of the ordeal. Still, I agree with most posters on this thread, it was left ambiguous on purpose, maybe to avoid censorship (rampant in Australia)
I’d never stopped to think that, but now that you lay it out it does seem like a rather large number of ‘tough guy’ characters. You could be onto something, maybe he was once a promising wrestler or boxer until an injury put an end to his fighting career.
Well, women fancied him, and that certainly helped. Other action starts were either too muscular for women's tastes (Arnold) or not that handsome (Stallone). Lundgren was also liked by he made fewer blockbusters I reckon
His acting was good. The problem is his character’s arc.
Will Patton’s acting.
That they tried something quite different (although they probably missed the mark)
The soundtrack
I’ve been thinking a lot about this and it looks to me as if the only plausible explanation is that when Michael grabbed Corey by the throat he passed his vigour/lunacy/stamina onto him, leaving him exhausted. That moment (the attempt at strangling) shows that he was still strong, until he started staggering wherever he went right after that scene.
This is, if it’s not just careless writing.
I think Worthington does a pretty decent job, it certainly does not feel overacted. He’s done a lot worse.
Neither the evil hospital or the ‘everything was just a dream’ would’ve worked, but what we got instead feels just soooo unrealistic. So a perfectly sane(just haunted) fellow can’t save his daughter and kills his wife accidentally and all of a sudden he goes bananas and starts hallucinating like there’s no tomorrow? I’m certainly no expert in mental illness, but I really doubt someone could lose their mind that way in a just a few minutes, no matter how traumatic the events are.