Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Taylor Kitsch, Shiva Negar
Plot: After surviving and witnessing his new fiance’s murder in front of him by a terrorist group, Mitch Rapp is out for vengeance. However, he is recruited by a counterterrorism group led by U.S. Navy SEAL, Stan Hurley whose latest target is a former recruit named Ghost.
Rating: 5/10
Overall: I have mixed feeling about this film. First, I love Dylan O’Brien. I think he’s a brilliant young actor, but I absolutely hated him in this film. You want to root for him because of everything he’s gone through, but he has so much “angst” that it just made me angry while watching. I thought the plot was very anticlimactic, which I think is fairly common these days. It’s hard to take such an action-packed film and trained assassins and make them have a long fight scene. But I feel like the first three Jason Bourne films were able to deliver those epic fight scenes — it just seemed like a long “pursuit” and it ended very abruptly with a cliche line, which in turn, made me hate everything about what the film was trying to build and climax to. I also wish it delved more into the Ghost character. Instead of narrating through dialogues between different characters, I would’ve liked if they incorporated a couple flashbacks or something. It’s the same thing with Mitch (O’Brien). I kind of wanted to see the film take us through his recovery — because I feel like with everything going on these days, it would’ve been interesting to see how someone copes with such a catastrophically tragic event. There were also some parts that I wish were explained — for example, the chat room thing that he’s on the people he talks to there. I wanted to know how he learned the language and what language exactly he was speaking. Did he take classes? Or did he just pick it up from videos?
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Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Taylor Kitsch, Shiva Negar
Plot: After surviving and witnessing his new fiance’s murder in front of him by a terrorist group, Mitch Rapp is out for vengeance. However, he is recruited by a counterterrorism group led by U.S. Navy SEAL, Stan Hurley whose latest target is a former recruit named Ghost.
Rating: 5/10
Overall: I have mixed feeling about this film. First, I love Dylan O’Brien. I think he’s a brilliant young actor, but I absolutely hated him in this film. You want to root for him because of everything he’s gone through, but he has so much “angst” that it just made me angry while watching. I thought the plot was very anticlimactic, which I think is fairly common these days. It’s hard to take such an action-packed film and trained assassins and make them have a long fight scene. But I feel like the first three Jason Bourne films were able to deliver those epic fight scenes — it just seemed like a long “pursuit” and it ended very abruptly with a cliche line, which in turn, made me hate everything about what the film was trying to build and climax to. I also wish it delved more into the Ghost character. Instead of narrating through dialogues between different characters, I would’ve liked if they incorporated a couple flashbacks or something. It’s the same thing with Mitch (O’Brien). I kind of wanted to see the film take us through his recovery — because I feel like with everything going on these days, it would’ve been interesting to see how someone copes with such a catastrophically tragic event. There were also some parts that I wish were explained — for example, the chat room thing that he’s on the people he talks to there. I wanted to know how he learned the language and what language exactly he was speaking. Did he take classes? Or did he just pick it up from videos?
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