When discussing the role of wrestling, not many tend to associate it with movies and shows yet quite a few wrestlers have made a good name for themselves. However, if I had to single out one actor from the list then it would have to be Dave Bautista. Over the past couple of years, Batista has turned into an interesting screen personality for several reasons. Bautista has the look that can easily enmesh well in action movies but can also be great for comedy such as his roles in “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Glass Onion”. In Blade Runner 2049 he only had to act fierce and emotional for a couple of seconds and yet he delivered everything with his trademark understated style that we have come to expect from Robert Forster. There is no way to defend the “My Spy” series but his role is so engaging and entertaining that all their plot holes are acceptable.
Defender’s paint applies as hot as Bautista’s new movie “Killer’s Game.” You don’t need to know what this movie is about. It doesn’t matter. It was awful. What mattered was the fact that the movie was billed as action-packed. It’s hard to believe that a sniper rifle would have been on screen for one hundred 100-124 minutes. It’s astonishing how boring things can become.
His name is Zvi Flood and he is an assassin residing in Budapest. But do relax, for the character is unlike any other assassin for ages a principles-driven man who as a hired killer respects the profession enough to eliminate only those who deserve it. Zvi Flood is shown to be a killer with a mentor, Zvi (Sir Ben Kingsley) an actor who has also played Gandhi. It begins with a dance recital where our protagonist’s staff are envious of the great lead dancer Maize (Sofia Boutella) and, fittingly for most of this kind of film, it starts off slow before building up. The heroine Sofia makes a killer romantic comedy this film defies analysis by reconstructing in the cutest way possible the Israeli belief that every moment in life has a reason.
There is, however, a different angle to it as well. He does seem to have a ticking time bomb on his brain, Kind of, and Over the course of the movie, one idea is pounded into him Excruciating headaches, in an already very complicated and over-busy plot, come somewhat thick and fast while Rarely seen someone suffering from a condition, Joe is unsurprisingly on stages and with a death clock with only about three months left.
Mikhail went to great lengths to ensure Maize did not see him in pain including contemplating taking his own life. Zvi however refuses to do such work so he talks to another handler, Marianna (Pom Klementieff) to talk to assassins. Because Marianna’s father is among Joe’s many dead bodies, she has no problems organizing people to do the job. Unfortunately, the moment the contract is signed, there’s a spoiler phone rings and it’s Joe’s physician who informs him that he has indeed fit into the role without an error. Joe, who wants to cancel the contract, which is clearly not something she would be able to do in the first place, on the contrary, is embraced by many. Instead of hiding, the ghastly feeling of numerous mercenaries and assassins comes for her.
Imagine having changed one’s mind mid-way during a convoluted incident where one had wanted to murder someone. This has been shown in a multitude of films as mainstream media, portraying Graham Chapman’s The Odd Job as a decisive tool for turning a drama into a comic tale as seen in the teleplay of Warren Beatty’s film ‘Bulworth’. Some might want to argue that this hypothetical context is far from reasonable. But screenwriters Rand Ravich and James Coyne have clearly already lost any sense of what a unique perspective is with regard to their material developed on Jay R. Bonnansiga’s. The first half of the show virtually depicts a version of Joe wandering from one tangle of unusually hired assassins K-Pop dancers, for instance, who perform a tune and some killing to another in the quest to find some woman.
Every innovation seems better in itself than the last ruthlessly violent incident in the film. Given such a view, it is going to be difficult to exit the cinema theater with the impression that you have watched anything less than an entertaining film with as deep a sense as a global one Johnny Wick.
Let’s not forget Johnny Wick for a moment, for pretty much any movie in good spirit that is more than just visually kinetic furious fights does find the multi-grammy winning cinematographer and Director J J Perry aka the bloke behind Jaimie Fox’s vampire hunter movie The Day Shift mildly irritating, thankfully for this movie J J Perry made excessive use of CGI which truly gave an appalling application to the entire bloody mess.
Bautista is doing his absolute best in filming because he knows he looks like the most capable out of everyone in this movie. But this is only half the case, as the film’s accolades only stem from Bautista’s desire. Most people view a project of this scale with some hopeful expectations, especially after having worked in various MCU franchises, the Dune trilogy and Knock At The Cabin, and one cannot help but feel that the expectation levels can only go down. To further my guess, Bautista worked very hard for this particular film, thus making it bearable, out of the scope of what others could’ve made it.
When it comes to other casts, Terry Crews (one of the assassins) is among the few that actually leave an impression. Klementieff and Bautista seem to have been quite a disappointment, but viewers were advised that they would only spend a few minutes on screen together although it would be more appropriate to describe them as love-sick girls, Boutella’s hot-headed action girl seems to be a bit lost in the film. On the other hand, Kingsley is more or less going through the motions.
Rote and disastrous entertainment that’s still an affront for more basic reasons just because it exists. What’s the most shocking about the situation is that “The Killer’s Game” will not fare well on the big screen but will do well on the streaming services and should remain archived for eternity. Sadly, this is not the case in this situation, given that Bautista definitely stands out as a talented person and is better than that at this very point of his film career. One can only hope that by the point Bautista has actually matured into a leading man, everyone around him and, to be honest, everyone else will have long moved past the narrative and probably have never even watched the film. To be fair, a lot of people are probably going to be in the 85-90% range forgiving to recall that a film even existed this month at all.
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