Leinwandliebe Film Talk

Munin wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:48 pm Ja ok, so langsam...

Tom Hardy joins forces with The Raid director Gareth Evans for a bloody action movie that should maybe been a little better, given their respective filmographies. Not that this Netflix crime thriller fails to deliver in the adrenaline department: The movie leaps to life whenever the bullets start flying. It's the generic gangland stuff in between that's not up to snuff, even with Hardy lending his trusty gruffness to the haunted-cop boilerplate.

Early action scenes are told in strangely oblique ways, with gunfire erupting off-screen (but little carnage shown) or else via abrupt cuts, filled in later by ultra-violent flashbacks. That’s true of Walker’s opening crisis of conscience, as well as a heavy-artillery heist on the local Chinese drug dealer (Jeremy Ang Jones), just as Charlie and pals are delivering their haul. When Evans does circle around to showing the shootout, it looks like a scene from such Hong Kong classics as “Hard Boiled” or “The Killer,” in which well-dressed Asian extras go cartwheeling in slow motion as squibs explode up and down their dress shirts. (So many practical blood packs make for a nostalgic touch in a movie that otherwise relies rather heavily on CGI.)

The problem with the movie's action is that, for the first time in his career, Evans has passed off the majority of editing duties to someone else, while still working as Havoc's action editor. Despite having oversight on this element, the editing is the choppiest of Evans' filmography yet, with some fights being a bit hard to follow with how much chaos is going on between cuts, and some of the choreography being undercut by that.

Havoc's action heavily uses CGI for certain sequences, including the opening police pursuit of a stolen big rig truck, in which one of the thieves is holding on to the door from the outside as it continually swings open during the drive. Given how destructive the scene is, I can see why utilizing CGI in lieu of practical effects was probably a cheaper method. It's not that the CGI looks bad; it's more that the textures look too smooth and the physics of the scene make it a little too obvious and it pulled me out of the moment.

Sylvio Constabel wrote: ↑Fri Apr 25, 2025 4:18 pm Der eine guckt 50er-Jahre-Japaner

Sylvio Constabel wrote: ↑Fri Apr 25, 2025 4:18 pm Gucken wir alle. Bis auf Statler und Waldorf. Der eine guckt 50er-Jahre-Japaner und der andere klatscht sich deswegen die Hände wund.

Hexer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:40 pm Puh, das Ding sieht echt hässlich wie die Nacht aus. Übler Digitallook mit einer Art - sinnlosem - Grainfilter und ganz komischer Beleuchtung. Autoverfolgung aus der Rechnerhölle, CGI-Blut in Massen. Kann man sich alles kaum anschauen.