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The Art of Self-Defense 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I’m not quite sure what to make of this movie.
It has a lot of laugh lines, but nearly every single one is premised on the fact you’re essentially watching Microsoft Sam read the Grolier Encyclopedia entry on Shōtōkan karate for 100 minutes in 1998. The emotional flatness of the characters is intentionally absurd. Imagine The Nutty Professor (1996), except it’s about an accountant who uses karate to cope with his traumas and deficiencies, and instead of Eddie Murphy every…
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