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I watched this last night. It's another one of those Netflix exclusive movies.
Oh boy, where to start.
This feels as disjointed as the Cloverfield Paradox, honestly. The first half of the movie is really great, nice worldbuilding, energetic, really neat characters. The Suicide Squad-style character intros feels very tacked on and while they fit with the first half of the movie, they sure don't later.
It falls apart pretty badly in the third act - I suspect this is one of those movies Netflix picked up unfinished by a studio that got cold feet and they tried to repair it. The place it took you to was very formulaic and while obviously you expect a assassin to have some level of plot armor, it gets pretty implausible for a while there. Additionally there is a torture scene that goes on for far too long, is far too graphic, and probably should have been edited down or cut.
Mads Mikkelson was terrific and pretty much every scene he was in was great. Vanessa Hudgens was badly miscast, in my opinion; she was probably the weakest point of the movie. Katheryn Winnick was given very little to do.
I'd go 5/10; I didn't love it or hate it, but I think it had the bones of a great movie and just couldn't bring it home. Still, if you liked John Wick you might enjoy this as well.
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lord_blackfang wrote: Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
And now I wish I hadn't bothered watching the film, either. Utter turd juice.
I mean, it had its "moments" and Mads did really well with what he was given. And I liked some of the assassin characters
But Matt Lucas was sodding awful as the antagonist. He wasn't menacing, nor funny, nor ironically cool. Just fething atrociously annoying. I have zero knowledge of the comic, so it may well be a really faithful adaptation of the Blut character. Maybe he's meant to be annoying? Maybe it's me? I don't care.
Overall I think Ouze put it best with "disjointed". Not even close to JW1, but it could have been far better than it was with a more credible villain.
Ouze wrote: It falls apart pretty badly in the third act - I suspect this is one of those movies Netflix picked up unfinished by a studio that got cold feet and they tried to repair it.
Its frustrating as a subscriber that they can't manage to fix about 30 minutes of a movie to patch it up, but with their original programming on the other hand, they'll add hours of content. Latest Punisher season is 12 episodes and was a chore for me to get a little over half way into it before I gave up. And that is with fast forwarding over gak that I could tell was filler. I get that movies most likely have a budget much higher than their shows, and that sets may be unworkable or stars already moved onto other projects, but if this becomes(and may well already be) a pattern, then they are going to be struggling very quickly.
I hope the latest price increase will address this. Its not breaking my bank, but I'm turning to Netflix less and less.
With that OT rant out of the way (sorry) I'll probably turn this on for noise while I paint my new Troggoths tonight.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Yes, this is a sort of tangent but also sort of topical, since we're dipping into Netflix original programming. The problems with Polar are not specific to this movie, but to any of the half-finished IP they salvage.
I totally agree. Their shows, especially the Marvel ones when they had them, are all too long. I don't know why they feel the need to make them 12x1 hour or whatever; because they clearly don't have the enthusiasm to fill that timeframe with good episodes. Every single series they have had suffers from filler in the middle.
I would like to see more movies from them, period - even the ones that are sort of a swing and a miss, like The Cloverfield Paradox and Polar. It seems like it's all TV Series, Anime, and Stand-Up comedy now. I have nothing against any of those things but if I paid for my Netflix, I would have long ago cancelled it. My stepson seems content to pay for it. though... so I suppose it's a jerk move to look a gift Netflix Movie in the Plot, to mash some idioms.
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lord_blackfang wrote: Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
