Uff... When I watched this mega-masterpiece for the first time, I had a strong desire to trample it into the dirt, as it essentially deserves, but... After a while, no, I didn’t admire the masterpiece, I just had a few interesting thoughts, about which below. The first and most important thing is that this is not purposeful trash, but a genre film in which they invested and even tried to cut a diamond with crooked hands so that it becomes a diamond. But the source material was a piece of crap - and the result was a piece of crap.
And if now everyone mostly copies this idiotic bastard John Wick, then the Poles quickly decided that if they were to rip, then as much as possible and something more ancient. As a result, we have a conditional "Hostage", but with elements of some completely idiotic political thriller a la "Jason Bourne", while filmed in the style of the second part "Adrenaline" with the meme hero Statham, "week" fights, but with a brutal chick in the role of GG in the spirit "Atomic Blonde" or "Crimson Mint". Given the above, a logical question arises: what do you want, dog?
And you need a lot of things. Where to start... And with the fact that the main character - a lady slightly over 40 - looks like an alcoholic with a MINIMUM of 15 years of experience. However, in the very first scene she’s sneaking out of the store, stocked up on beer, but she didn’t take much - three cans. Charlize Theron in "Blonde" and Jennifer Garner At least in “Mint” they are beautiful, don’t look at the fact that the handles are as thick as a tube of toothpaste. Right there... Kikimora - that’s her nickname. And that is not all! Her son (apparently adopted) is a black man. Black person! In Poland... a black man! Oh yeah, a Netflix movie, okay.
Babentia is a retired super-hyper-mega-ultra agent, which is why she was forced to abandon her family. And as usually happens, the lion's share of the film is devoted to the hysterics of her damned shoe polish son. In general, I got the impression that during the casting of the film they purposefully selected some freaks. Seriously, both positive and negative characters, men and women in the film look like caricatured Untermenschs from the posters of the Third Reich.
The plot is such an unbearable muddle that describing it is like talking about an LSD trip. At the same time, for some reason the authors mixed a spy-political thriller with a fierce comedic trash talk, but did not observe the measure at all. Here's an example: there is a certain evil guy, a bald star who looks like a skinhead, but at the same time has painted nails on his hands and suspenders. For several minutes we are shown this stuffed animal with a naked torso, its antics... Then he talks to his father’s severed head in the aquarium. And then he executes one of the henchmen, poking him with two shockers into the tower... And when he dies, the villain experiences something like a sexual orgasm... And this lasts for a long, long time. Director, screenwriter, producer - are you trolling the viewer or are you completely beaten off?
Now about the main thing. Action. There are fights, there are shootouts. Fights - they tried to stage them inventively. If we draw parallels, they resemble a mixture "The Great Leveler", where the hero actively uses available objects, deftly calculating options, also a good Australian science fiction action movie "Upgrade" with his mechanical fighting technique, where the hero moves as programmed, relying not so much on technique as on super-reaction. Well, it is designed in the style of the already mentioned “adrenaline number two” with the addition "Shoot 'em" (remember to use Clive Owen carrots?). At the same time, some fights were filmed in long, continuous takes that I adored. If this all sounds as cool as I described, then "what's the catch?" - an inquisitive reader will ask me? And the devil is in the act. If Theron, being a mega-star, could train for a month in martial arts in order to portray at least the minimum plausibility of getting fucked up Danya Bernhard, then here... not only does the actress not know how to fight, but moreover, apparently they didn’t work with her at all, because all her techniques are simply INCREDIBLY slow and clumsy. Michael Dudikoff in "American Ninja" looked better. I understand that initially they were filming a trash film, well, where the main thing is to kill funny, but when a pumped-up gopota literally stands and waits for a Polish super-agent to clumsily kick someone so that she can fly off according to the script - this is... mother gave birth to me back. When the shooting began, I was not mistaken that there would be three times more shots than the Kalash’s magazine could hold. And no, don’t think that I’m nitpicking like a fool about obvious trash, but it’s just not spectacular. The only plus: the Poles found blank cartridges in the warehouses, so at least they didn’t paint the shooting like the Indonesians.
If we take other advantages or disadvantages of this masterpiece... The disadvantages are that the adults there are such idiocy, such a clinical blizzard that I don’t believe that the script was not written by a mental patient. As for the advantages... there is some very cool color correction, and in general the whole technical part is on the level, so some shots turned out strangely beautiful. But what difference does this make? Make a cake out of shit, stick two cream roses on it - they will only emphasize the main essence. For the Poles - dis.
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