A feature film of more than one hour and forty minutes is a bit unbearable to the slow pace of European directors.
The black male protagonist Beckett and his white girlfriend went on vacation in Greece in April. Even though Beckett was tired at night, it caused a traffic accident and hit a house on the side of the road. His girlfriend died in April and he was also injured. (Rent a car without airbags?)
When Beckett was injured, he found a little boy in the house. He was hunted down after calling the police. He himself didn't understand what was going on. In the process of fleeing, he discovered that the little boy he had met was the nephew who was kidnapped by a popular candidate in Greece.
Beckett finally escaped into the U.S. Embassy, but was hunted down again by embassy staff. After trying to chase down his embassy staff, he found that the candidate had been assassinated and supporters clashed with the police. At the same time, he also happened to find the right-wing police and women who had been chasing him.
After fighting with two right-wing guys and rescuing the kidnapped little boy, Beckett became a hero.
Obviously, the kidnappings and assassinations in Greece were supported by the US intelligence agencies, specifically implemented by local right-wing organizations, but the US government could not publicly admit it, so Beckett had to be taken outside the embassy and killed.
However, I feel that the US embassy's handling was too sloppy. Not only did it fail to succeed, but it also allowed Beckett to expose the conspiracy of the right-wing forces, which was really lacking in professional standards.
The rhythm of the first half of the film is really stretched, and it feels like abandoning the drama many times. The second half was a little better. My girlfriend was basically playing soy sauce in April, not as much as the left-wing German girl who saved the man in the car. In fact, the plot is very simple, but there is no depth, and did not dig deeper into the motives of the US embassy in colluding with right-wing forces.
It feels a bit of a simplified version of the spy shadow of the common people, but the plot is really lackluster.
It is too difficult to find a black man to be the male lead in Southeast European countries where black people are scarce. It would be better to go to the blackened France and Germany, and I can't bear the political correctness of the European white leftists.
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