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10 comments:
I think I watched that review yesterday, and I for one want to see it. It reminds me a bit of The American with George Clooney. The promotional materials made it out to be an action-packed thriller, when in fact it is a very slow, deliberately paced film. There are action scenes--three of them, in fact--but they are very carefully choreographed and paced to serve the narrative. I thought it was a great film, and hauntingly beautiful at times, but I know a lot of people were disappointed with it because they went in expecting something completely different. It's like when you drink orange juice but your expecting milk and it tastes absolutely awful.
So I'm glad I watched the review, and I definitely want to see this at some point if possible.
I never saw "The American," but it's on my list.
Och.
"It's like when you drink orange juice but your expecting milk and it tastes absolutely awful."
rolls eyes
And then there's:
I don't really make stuffing unles I have something to stuff it into
—from your other comment!
I leave typos in comments on John McCrarey's blog all the time (like my blog, his has no edit feature), causing me to self-flagellate about the irony of being a proofreader but still making such mistakes.
In reading about "The American," I saw that it has an assassin-in-Italy plot like "The Equalizer 3." I just purchased the Clooney movie to watch; it's going to be strange because "The American" is from 2010, so it obviously came first, but I'll be seeing it second.
Leaving off an "s" is something that just happens. Mixing up "you're" and "your" is a groaner. I should probably proofread my comments before I post them. I tend to just type them up and immediately hit submit.
Also, do not go into The American thinking that it is going to be like The Equalizer. (Full disclosure: I never saw the third Equalizer film, but I saw the first, and I'm assuming the series maintains a relatively consistent style and tone.) That would be like expecting Die Hard and The Towering Inferno to be similar because they both feature tall buildings.
I just looked up the film on Wikipedia and saw that it is described as an "action thriller." I have to wonder if whoever wrote that even watched the film or if they just looked at the poster.
No worries. I'd heard the scuttlebutt about "The American" before, so I had some idea it'd be a thoughtful, more meditative sort of film.
Re: typos. Welcome to my world. It used to be finger mistakes for me, but now my brain misfires with increasing frequency. Still, it is nice to have evidence that you are a human. Or does AI make typos, too?
It's passable, but not the high quality one would expect from its star and director. I found it slow, boring, and insulting to the Spanish speaking Dominican Republic. I also expected a professional killer to be more professional and not sloppy with his home life with actual safeguards and maybe a bunker for protection. Anyway, this latest prestige director defection to Netflix wasn't as fun, or action packed, as the two brothers' "The Grey Man." At least they brought enough viewers to justify a sequel and a spin-off, "The Lone Wolf."
The Gray Man?
I reviewed the movie here and the novel here.
Yeah. Neither film was a masterpiece, but "The Gray Man" was just a more enjoyable watching experience with a stronger cast as a whole. Will it make me want to watch the sequel or "The Lone Wolf?" Probably.
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