Views on the movie 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' - anyone?

[Desiremakesmeweak]

You go first.

 

[pointless]

nah. i'm good.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

This is a very good movie. The public film critics are absolutely without credibility whatsoever here. They're either that ignorant, or moronically too young to be doing the job they're pretending to do, or utterly corrupt beyond hope.

Samuel L. Jackson became Marlon Brando - metaphorically speaking - in this outstanding Hollywood movie.

And god knows, I am the most vocal anti-Hollywood type movie-making person around.

Brando did pop entertainment too and in it made money and yet established how good he really was all the same. Jackson has reached the same level of self-assured type of performance. He's absolutely brilliant here and Ryan Reynolds as the 'straight man' was sensational. All the cameos were simply a joy - from Richard E. Grant to Gary Oldman to Selma Hayek.

The critics appear not to have understood the point of parody and ironic melodrama of the Hollywood entertainment vogue. This movie is an adult morality fairy tale in a post-amoral political world. It has a dry sense of humor and it is not entirely dissimilar to 'Team America' but with real human being actors and absent the nine minute spew scene - which was side-splitting in context. This is not side-splitting humor but it doesn't need to be.

 

[Rightguide]

Jackson bores me. I probably won't be rushing out to get in line.