Roman Reigns…
…that’s it. That’s the review.
I’m kidding. I’m gonna keep it short and sweet.
Actor Paul Bettany (MCU’s Vision, and one of your favorite actor’s favorite actors) provides a great summarization of Jason Statham’s acting abilities in this video. Statham may be the only actor that I don’t mind being one-note and having absolutely no range. His bread and butter are action films with mediocre writing.
Cute script, not great but entertaining. Great tech and extravagant action scenes. Nice cameos. This was a really expensive film to produce, so I’m glad they recouped on the budget.
Idris Elba killed it as “Black Superman.”
One HUGE issue though that I need to breakdown: In the final act of the film, there was a grave lack of consistency between Vanessa Kirby’s character’s timed viral ejection contraption and the subsequent actions of the main characters. There was a 30-minute countdown on the contraption, and the big fight scene that commenced shortly after the time started took place during the nighttime. Only a few minutes are shown to have elapsed on the clock, but there was a huge shift in skylight from nighttime to early morning to mid-day as the fight continued. They fought all over Samoa, and shawty still had time left on the clock. Aight. 🙄😒😑
Also, The Rock holding a chain linked to a moving helicopter while not being strapped down to a moving vehicle. I mean, aight. Cute, real-real cute producers.
Oh, and it ended with “let’s all go home” and arms around necks. LOLOLOLOL! Aight.