TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
Yeah, Lundgren and Jaa both share about an equal amount of screen time and they're both leads. Not sure how you can call him a supporting player.
Anyway, just watched the movie and it was so poorly executed I don't even know where to begin.
Like there's a fun no-nonsense action movie hidden in here somewhere but half the time it's like they don't even realize how far off the mark they are, or worse, can't bother to try. Like the editing is way off throughout the whole movie, not just the action scenes, ruining the flow at every turn. There are dialogue scenes that get cut off mid-sentence, shots where you literally can see the moment the director yells 'action' or 'cut' by how actors wind up or wind down, it's just a total mess. For instance, the movie opens with a young girl running away from home to go to a talent agency in the city and as she makes her way to the bus it shows her stepping on some wildflowers (symbolizing how the skin trade destroys beauty) before cutting to her getting on the bus. But it's completely visible that when they shot that scene, the director just told her to step on the flowers and yelled "cut" right there. Which means that even something as simple as her stepping on some flowers before stepping onto a bus looks choppy because you can see her stop before it cuts to her stepping again.
Strangely enough we do get half a decent fight scene out of MJW vs. Jaa, I guess raw talent (even though it's subdued in the movie as well) can't be completely brought down by poor execution. It's probably the only fight in the movie that doesn't feel like all its momentum is continuously swept out from underneath it. Similarly the screenplay tries way too hard to be serious (you can tell by the way they keep pounding on how terrible the human trafficking industry is) which takes a lot of fun out of the movie and makes it near impossible to look past how badly written it is. If you don't try to make it humorous to lighten the tone (like Commando), at least minimize the plot so it's focused and straight to the point (like John Rambo). This was just all over the place where one minute we're supposed to be touched by the horrors of human trafficking and the next we see Dolph in a tank top stepping out of cover so he can fire his machine gun standing open and wide for enemy fire. Pick one or the other, Dolph, don't try both.
Also, Tony Jaa seems to have no idea what he's saying in English and just reciting lines phonetically (and at times literally saying them wrong, which they either kept in out of 'authenticity' or simply couldn't be bothered to reshoot), and speaking of reciting lines, besides screaming "Dad" a couple of time, the only dialogue Dolph's daughter has is where she asks Dolph to listen to her recite some lines from a Shakespeare play for an upcoming audition. So pretty much the only thing this girl has to do in the movie convincingly, is say those lines convincingly, and she fukking can't. She's so bad that you can practically see Dolph struggling to tell her in character that it sounded great.
What a wasted fukking opportunity, especially with this cast. Just wait until the MJW/Jaa fight hits Youtube and call it a day.
Anyway, just watched the movie and it was so poorly executed I don't even know where to begin.
Like there's a fun no-nonsense action movie hidden in here somewhere but half the time it's like they don't even realize how far off the mark they are, or worse, can't bother to try. Like the editing is way off throughout the whole movie, not just the action scenes, ruining the flow at every turn. There are dialogue scenes that get cut off mid-sentence, shots where you literally can see the moment the director yells 'action' or 'cut' by how actors wind up or wind down, it's just a total mess. For instance, the movie opens with a young girl running away from home to go to a talent agency in the city and as she makes her way to the bus it shows her stepping on some wildflowers (symbolizing how the skin trade destroys beauty) before cutting to her getting on the bus. But it's completely visible that when they shot that scene, the director just told her to step on the flowers and yelled "cut" right there. Which means that even something as simple as her stepping on some flowers before stepping onto a bus looks choppy because you can see her stop before it cuts to her stepping again.
Strangely enough we do get half a decent fight scene out of MJW vs. Jaa, I guess raw talent (even though it's subdued in the movie as well) can't be completely brought down by poor execution. It's probably the only fight in the movie that doesn't feel like all its momentum is continuously swept out from underneath it. Similarly the screenplay tries way too hard to be serious (you can tell by the way they keep pounding on how terrible the human trafficking industry is) which takes a lot of fun out of the movie and makes it near impossible to look past how badly written it is. If you don't try to make it humorous to lighten the tone (like Commando), at least minimize the plot so it's focused and straight to the point (like John Rambo). This was just all over the place where one minute we're supposed to be touched by the horrors of human trafficking and the next we see Dolph in a tank top stepping out of cover so he can fire his machine gun standing open and wide for enemy fire. Pick one or the other, Dolph, don't try both.
Also, Tony Jaa seems to have no idea what he's saying in English and just reciting lines phonetically (and at times literally saying them wrong, which they either kept in out of 'authenticity' or simply couldn't be bothered to reshoot), and speaking of reciting lines, besides screaming "Dad" a couple of time, the only dialogue Dolph's daughter has is where she asks Dolph to listen to her recite some lines from a Shakespeare play for an upcoming audition. So pretty much the only thing this girl has to do in the movie convincingly, is say those lines convincingly, and she fukking can't. She's so bad that you can practically see Dolph struggling to tell her in character that it sounded great.
What a wasted fukking opportunity, especially with this cast. Just wait until the MJW/Jaa fight hits Youtube and call it a day.
with the cuts and the story was straight up offensive
