This month, many immortality cases appeared on the platform of platforms, which many movie lovers after the release managed to dub the trailer “Finnish John Wick.”
We figure out whether the guys in a black suit really get a tough competitor who deals with their enemies no less effectively. Answer: yes and no.
About everything in order.
Showdown in Lapland
This movie lacks good dialogue, but it could make a comeback with a brutal action movie.
What is the movie about: 1944 A small group of Nazis retreating from Finland meet a lone gold digger on their way. The road conflict is presented to the emergence of a conflict in the outback in Lapland.
Brutal disassembly of evil fascists and a harsh silent path in the beauty of the northern nature. Nothing superfluous, a real man’s movie. But it’s not as obvious as the results might be.
The first few months on the screen of the event are pleasantly pleasing. This slow-paced classic western is set in a World War II setting. Instead of a cowboy, a Finnish gold digger; instead of horses, tanks and trucks. In addition, the operator indulges with colorful landscapes of the Lapland fields, and the author of the soundtrack with folklore chants. All together it is a special charm.
Movie connoisseurs will see references to the classics of cinema – the similarity of the starting minutes with “Oil”, homage to “Once Upon a Time in the Wild West”, sometimes caricatured “Tarantin” characters, and, of course, a showdown in the style of John Wick. would it be considered that they were going to go wrong?
The very first showdown with the Nazis offers maximum cruelty level, the plot course of an anomaly of increased adequacy of motivation in most people in development. Perfect for a modern action movie.
But, unfortunately, today’s films come out under the slogan “to hell with realism – you give idiocy.” Each next absurd meeting in Immortal will be the envy of both the Marvel heroes and the drift master from the Fast and the Furious.
The laws of physics, the absence of ballistics rules, the story of unreliability – a real mix that translates a harsh movie about Finnish Rambo into a comic book section. The closer the end of the story, the more often the authors use the protagonist’s cheat – indestructibility. The title of the film is reproduced in full on the screen.
There is a tireless old man’s honor in the “Immortal” presence, but it sounds like part of a children’s story. The character is even given the name of the famous hero of the Russian folk tale, according to which the death of the character occurs at the end of the needle, the needle in the egg, the egg in the duck, the duck in the hare, the hare in shock … As they say, not Baba Yaga is one. But lovers of male cinema return disappointed, the lack of a vague explanation of how one can survive after this or that event, in my opinion, this is the screenwriter’s cant.
Another failed movie lack of clear dialogue. And if the idea with the most profound hero, you can understand, in the end, he follows almost all the time alone. Here are the conversations between German soldiers clumsy and boring.
You expect ironic jokes, sarcasm, even if it shocks with its cruelty the phrases of the antagonists, but you get just slurred banal phrases. Sometimes they are just stupid. This seriously worsens the impression of what is happening – doubly insulting, given that one of the main roles is played by the charismatic actor Axel Hennie. Many remember him for his role in the movie “Headhunters”.
Action was able to surprise
The protagonist is brutal, harsh and, as we are already killing, silent. At the same time, the colorful actor Jorma Tommila does not act in the style of the unemotional terminator Tom Cruise. Here our place is both physical and mental pain, and panic and sensitivity in the moment.
But most of all pleases, of course, juicy inventive action in different places. There is a severe scuffle, and unexpected meat scenes with explosives, and even showdowns under water and high on the shore. Again, there is no question of realism, but about what is happening, that’s all looks pretty impressivedespite the fact that the budget of the picture is only 10 million dollars.
What is the result: to watch or not
We do not pretend to be something ingenious, a downed action movie, in that a variety of action is at the head of everything. The protagonist’s ability to survive will be envied by Rambo, Ethan Hunt’s consistent flying spells, and John Wick’s funny companion dog.
Too bad the movie is only an hour and a half long. I think that the authors continue the story of the immortal old man from the barren expanses of Finland. The creators have no fantasy with a variety of action, it remains for the screenwriter to find the universe-comic book about the “Immortal”.
As it progresses, the director may consider a sequel if the movie is successful.
Source: Iphones RU
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