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Ruthless (2023)
Put your valuable time into watching a movie that's worth it.
The acting was pure garbage to begin with. Catia, the girl that needs to be rescued, is just really annoying. I think what's even more annoying is her horrible attempts at acting. I've seen better acting in a high school play.
I think a major issue here is that the movie doesn't know what it wants to be. It's kinda all over the place. If they just cut ONE aspect and put more focus into the other stories you would have something more cohesive. Nothing really has time to develop. And hey: Why is coach even training? Why is he paying a high school student money to train when he's a coach? You think oh maybe he's training to get revenge on his daughter's killers... but wait it's not that, Catia is kidnapped and it's her captors he wants. I dunno man the whole thing doesn't make sense.
This has no reason to be listed as an action thriller because Dermot only goes around breaking arms. There's no cool shootouts or real fights. Just "I don't like you so imma break your arm". Skip this. It's just a weird hodgepodge of every suspense movie you know but with truly terrible acting and no real payoff for having to endure it all.
The 2nd (2020)
If you value your precious time on this Earth, at all, watch something else.
You know, I'm not really a movie buff or anything close to a critic. I'm just an average movie watcher, nothing really has to be too deep for me to enjoy it. Just needs to make some kind of sense. But don't ever waste 90 minutes of your precious life for a feeling of satisfaction you can almost guarantee will never come.
I really don't know why I continued to waste my life on this terrible excuse of cinematography. The first ten minutes with the horrible music, obviously added in post death grunts... I thought okay maybe it's not going to be that bad, maybe like a gritty tone being set.
And like I said, I don't overthink movies too much, so when I say I thought this sucked the whole way through, it just goes to show you how bad of an impression it made. How does a kid in high school have that much facial hair? Why would a team that wanted to make sure the girl was caught without problems let some random guy waltz in to pick up his son? How does the Russian mercenary go from hillbilly to Russian without sounding at least a LITTLE Russian? How can a handgun never need to be reloaded? The judge didn't even ask for proof that the CIA director has his daughter? Ryan's son gets shot in the upper chest but can kill two people twice his size? How does a Cadillac magically go back in time and turn into an exploded older Mercedes? How does a dead guy drive a van so well, but can't shoot someone on the roof with an AR?! And the ending: if the driver killed the CIA director to keep a secret, isn't someone going to kill him for knowing it? I mean there's an unknown benefactor, but he only trusts the "Driver"? Like how many people get shot if a secret never really goes away? Does the driver just take over the whole operation now because he can be the only one who knows the secret of what happened at the high school and forcing the judge's hand? But, the judge is still alive so won't he say something? I mean what the HELL is this all even about?! Oh and those terrible death grunts that were so obviously added in post... you are in for a treat in the LA port.
Read this review. Read the the dozen questions I ask. And then ask yourself: is something really ever going to be enjoyable when it already left such a bad first impression? Because I wish I just stopped before the beginning credits rolled and watched something worthy of my limited time on this planet.