A group of older action stars

Marley 2022-03-21 09:01:21

In terms of the current level of film technology, it is actually not difficult to shoot a hot and intense action movie. What is difficult is to correctly and reasonably handle the relationship between the action scenes and the storyline. The director handles this very well. Yes, at least it doesn't make people feel that there is any serious conflict between the two.
It's not uncommon for action movies to put together a big-name lineup (big old names), and what's rare (recently like "The Expendables") is that almost everyone can make the most of them. I mean, at least each of them "acted normally".
Based on the above two points, the director succeeded!
At least it made me happy to watch and I didn't feel like I was spending an idle afternoon in vain.


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  • Joe Matheson: We're gettin' the band back together.

  • [Frank calls Cooper on the phone; Cooper is told to stall him while the call is traced]

    Frank Moses: Here's the thing, Cooper. With age... comes a certain perspective. I'd be a liar if I said there wasn't a time when I was exactly like you. Blind ambition. Misplaced trust.

    William Cooper: Why are you telling me this?

    Frank Moses: It may help me to decide what to do next.

    Interrogation Surveillance Tech: [technician tracing the call whispering to Cooper] Just keep it going.

    William Cooper: Why? What are you thinking about?

    Frank Moses: Our business is a very hard one. But it was never the, uh... the killing or the stress, the bad pay that bothered me.

    William Cooper: Well, what was it, Frank?

    Frank Moses: It's how anything that you love... can be taken away from you. It taught me never to care. Never to invest. Then I met this woman. Sarah. And now you have her. Now I can't think of anything more horrible than to know that your enemies can hurt someone you love. The feeling is almost indescribable.

    [the trace completes, and the technician hands Cooper a printout]

    Frank Moses: You still there, Cooper?

    William Cooper: [horrified] You're at my house

    [Frank looks out the window into the yard where Cooper's wife and two children, unaware, are playing]

    Frank Moses: Almost indescribable, isn't it?

    William Cooper: [whispering] Please... Please don't hurt my family.

    Frank Moses: If anything happens to Sarah, I will rip everything you love out of your life. And then I'll kill you.