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TopicMovie Club Topic 4 - We Need to Talk About the Genius Saint Who Killed The Muppe
Camden
10/06/21 1:26:52 AM
#401:


Because after getting completely caught up I decide to immediately fall three movies behind again.

Nobody - 8/10

Really liked the movie, though I do have a few gripes with it. First, Bob... who will be called Bob during this because it's either that or Saul as I don't actually remember what his name was in this movie, is presented as a badass, secret government type pretty early on, someone who knows how to do just about everything and is completely cool and collected under pressure, but absolutely loses it on some randos on a bus. Sure, a regular guy getting emotional and going rambo makes sense, but with everything we know about this character from the movie not so much. It's not even like he tried escorting the girl off the bus, they got in his way and then, well, gotta do what you gotta do. My man starts everything.

On the other hand, the bus fight was my favorite part of the film. Came off very much like a fight from a Jackie Chan film, where even though Jackie (Bob) is the winner of the fight, he takes his lumps during it. Makes an unrealistic fight seem somewhat more realistic when the hero gets his ass kicked too. Also, the Stop Requested sign going off for some humor is also straight out of a Jackie Chan fight scene. Which is why the rest of the action scenes didn't hold up as well for me, as ol' Bob immediately transitions into the nearly perfect hero who can do no wrong. The five randos on the bus gave him more trouble than a gross of russians with an equal amount of firepower.

Second fight, the goons are told to bring him in alive so of course they're armed to the teeth and firing to kill. Not sure how they planned to take him alive when they were going over their plans before the attack but that seemed like a poor way to go about it.

Also, I know Bob ain't exactly a spring chicken so anyone playing his dad has to be even older, but Christopher Lloyd seems really out of place here.

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