Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
As a film it’s boring, but as a waste of talent and resources it’s unforgivable. This cost four times as much as The Creator and has significantly less to show for it. A dreadful script with even worse direction squanders imaginative design and a stacked cast of otherwise talented actors who, without fault, seem to be here for the paycheck.
Extremely silly and far better than it has any right being, owing much of its success to a surprisingly witty script, an extremely game performance from Hartnett and some rock solid fight choreography. Impossible to ignore the similarities to Bullet Train (2022) but this accomplishes much more with significantly less.
The staging of the play itself is both amusing and inventive and the cast all seem likeable, so it’s a shame that 70% of this film is made up of contrived artifice with relatively little insight to any of the real people involved. I suspect it’s more entertaining to watch if you have absolutely no idea how online games work and are able to take it at face value; otherwise it’s impossible for the sincerity of the more heartfelt scenes…