disappointing movie

Lambert 2022-04-22 07:01:05

I can't write any comments, just like after watching this film I feel like I have nothing to say. I originally thought that two actors I liked very much would be able to perform a little suspense and make my heart beat faster! The film turned out to be surprisingly bland, except to let me know that if I were to take a hostage one day, I should pay attention to what the police do!
The only thing that surprises me is that Denzel's character does commit crimes that can be ignored on our side, but having him take on this painless crime is to make him more acceptable to John and thus have a hero Deeds can be done. John seems to want to prove his success in the financial world. When his gold skyrocketed, the sense of accomplishment made him not care about those hostages and his own life. Such high IQ people are always destroyed by their inner arrogance. However, in real life, there are no people with high IQ who are fatal. After all, this movie is in a real scene, and the characters cannot be separated from all living beings.
In addition to the deliberate creation of the characters, the plot is even more straightforward, and a clue goes to the end, which is lacking. Plot irrationality blossomed everywhere. Time is urgent, so many senior staff have not thought of using helicopters to transport the ransom? The director just didn't let the plane get on the plane in order to force it into the "chasing car". The setting of the signal lights in the subway is much more complicated than that on the street. There are green lights all the way in the subway, but the traffic lights on the street always refuse to let the police cars go all the way. What's even more ridiculous is that the gangster allowed the young man to lie on the ground and chat with his sister, without smashing the computer or knocking the young man unconscious; there was also the poor sniper who was bitten by a mouse in his pants, and the result was unlucky. It's that badass! When the criminals jumped out of the car and the subway car moved, no one went to the cab to see, and no one called 911 to tell the police that the red light was okay!
Disappointing, that's all!

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  • Ryder: Do you know what I'm looking at? Do you know what I'm looking at?

    Walter Garber: No, I do not.

    Ryder: Ok, well first there's my gun... and at the end of my gun, what's your name man?

    George: George, everyone calls me Geo.

    Ryder: George, his friends call him Geo. He's got this kinda eighties skateboard thing going on... he makes it work, but it's not gonna look too good in his casket.

  • Walter Garber: What's her name?

    Ryder: Lavitca, she was Lithuanian... she was an ASS-model.

    Walter Garber: She asked you what?

    Ryder: You heard of hand-models, right? Advertisements?

    Walter Garber: Right.

    Ryder: She was an ass-model... she did jeans and uh you know, magazines and shit. Anyway, it was fashion week in New York and uh... I took her to Iceland.

    Walter Garber: Lavitca, Lithuanian, Ass model, Iceland, you took her to the ice...

    Ryder: So, for five-hundred bucks they'll take you on a dog-sled ride on a glacier.

    Walter Garber: Dog-sled?

    Ryder: Yeah... and you know that whole saying that if you're not the lead dog, the view never changes?

    Walter Garber: Right, otherwise you're always looking at the asshole of the dog in front of you.

    Ryder: That'll be funny in a minute when I get to that part.

    Walter Garber: It's funny now.

    Ryder: [next scene] And it's eight in the morning, we haven't been to bed yet... and we're tooling across this glacier and I got this hangover that's creeping up the back of my neck... and guess what I'm looking at?

    Walter Garber: You're obviously you're staring at... the ass of the dog in front of you.

    Ryder: You got it! So this dog... out of nowhere just lifts his hind-legs up and puts them in the, you know the harness there... and just takes a shit, while he's running on his front paws. So he's dumping and running, all at the same time... now that's multi-fucking-tasking if you ask me.

    Walter Garber: Get outta here, did it hit you?

    Ryder: Shit always hits you man.

    [next scene]

    Ryder: I didn't know it at the time, but it was profound.

    Walter Garber: Profound?

    Ryder: Yeah.

    Walter Garber: Why? Uh, you lost me.

    Ryder: Well, you know uh... when I went to prison later on, what you called. Uh, I had trouble going to the toilet... you know, a privacy thing. And I... couldn't take a shit. I was scared shitless... literally. So, you know what I thought of?

    Walter Garber: You thought of the dog.

    Ryder: That's right... I thought of that dog. If it could do what it needed to do... so could I. It saved my fucking live.

    Walter Garber: Wow, that is profound.