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The Courier (2020)
Not great
This film start with an article talking about nuclear war, and a Russian making speech scene! As turnout, this film is about a British salesman "Greville" working with a Russian colonel "Oleg" as a spy to prevent the nuclear war, and both of them eventually get caught by the Russian government! Entire film full of boring conversation, and annoying overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the smoking scene, overuse of the drinking scene, overuse of the eating scene, overuse of the driving scene, overuse of the taking picture scene, overuse of the walking scene, overuse of the watching TV scene, overuse of the blackout scene, overuse of the reading file scene, overuse of the arguing scene, and overuse of the calling names scene! Make the film unwatchable! At the end, an article indicate Greville die on the year of 1990, and Oleg been executed! The actual character of Greville been interviewed at the very end! That's it! Another disappointed film.
Spy (2015)
Statham shows comedy bones
Spy has as much clumsy hilarity as James Bond has suave persona. It presents myriad of experienced actors from other genres doing bloopers for typical action flicks. While not all Melissa McCarthy's jokes pan out, she is a respectable lead role and the collective effort from the cast succeeds in creating a thoroughly amusing comedy, which in its best will take audience's breath and replacing them with constant laughter.
Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is the handler of a brilliant spy Bradley Fine (Jude Law). After one botched operation, she finds herself tangled with criminal boss and assassins as she goes undercover to finish the task. There are a lot of jokes on her expense, mainly for her contrasting appearance to the glamorous life of spies. The fat jokes are quite funny and entertaining, though slightly overused. Much of the effective moments are from the absurdly rude dialogues dropped in expense of the characters.
These best parts come from her interaction with other usually serious actors. It's definitely an over-the-top movie when the overly narcissistic Jude Law is probably the least peculiar character. He still carries the playboy attitude, and the movie decides he should channel this particular trait of James Bond. For the slightly antagonist character, Rose Bryne fills the spot. I had a hard time recognizing this once haunted housewife Renai Lambert from Insidious as she grudgingly stares, passionately curses and decides poorly like a syndicate boss would do.
My personal favorite is Jason Statham. His role is so exaggerated, it may very well be inspired by Chuck Norris' jokes. The pathological urge to use profanity and his constant misplaced confidence are furthest things from his usual gimmick, yet he pulls it off with full conviction. For a comedy movie, some of the action sequences are actually presentable. Fights are well-choreographed, especially one particular knife battle.
The excessive nature might not always work, but when Spy hits its stride, there's no stopping these inelegant incompetent agents from extracting laugh from audience.
Wrath of Man (2021)
Average statham
Guy Ritchie and a character tailor-made for Jason Statham. It doesn't matter that it's a remake of a French film; the adaptation is fantastic and definitely has all the ingredients to make it a great movie. It has plot, character development, great production design and while the pace has a downhill at the end everything in itself is a very pleasant experience for any fan of good movies but it is just average.
Vengeance Is Mine (2021)
The watching experience
Nothing better than to watch a movie that involves you in the watching experience without the use of words, its trance like. You are engrossed in the action and the characters without hearing them say what they are thinking or feeling, thats a real skill so kudos to this team.
I see that there is a discussion going on wether its dream or not, I have to say it did niggle me a tad when I was watching it thinking the same thing and to see other people are saying its a dream makes me think, BUT wether its a dream or not its still a clever little movie.
Killer Elite (2011)
Statham (as always) great, not much of De Niro though
I thought the story line was great, lots of action and shoot outs. But I felt let down by some of the accents in the film (in particular the 'Welshman' as I still can't work out where his accent is supposed to be from - he certainly isn't Welsh).
Statham was excellent but I couldn't help think that De Niro could have been used more in the film. Clive Owen had a moodly looking moustache and his dialogue didn't always seem believable at times, but the whole cat and mouse game really got me into this film.
I enjoy the mystery sounding the 'Feather Men' which made me read up about this after watching the film.
A good idea, executed well, but could have been better in my opinion, especially using De Nero more.