The actor’s distinctive acting style is the only reason to watch this silly C-grade pulp filled with stilted dialogue and bad CGI
If you’re going to make a bad movie, the smartest thing you can do is hire Keanu Reeves to star in it. As of late, he’s been doing a lot of fine work with vision-driven directors’ understanding of his distinctive manner of performance – Ana Lily Amirpour, Nicolas Winding Refn, and the John Wick braintrust of Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, to name only a few. But his bread and butter remains the C-grade sci-fi/action picture, a disreputable micro-genre defined by the mandate it places on its actors to deliver mounds of dialogue that might as well be in Esperanto with a straight face.
Related: The Upside review – Bryan Cranston heads up horrific odd-couple disability drama...
If you’re going to make a bad movie, the smartest thing you can do is hire Keanu Reeves to star in it. As of late, he’s been doing a lot of fine work with vision-driven directors’ understanding of his distinctive manner of performance – Ana Lily Amirpour, Nicolas Winding Refn, and the John Wick braintrust of Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, to name only a few. But his bread and butter remains the C-grade sci-fi/action picture, a disreputable micro-genre defined by the mandate it places on its actors to deliver mounds of dialogue that might as well be in Esperanto with a straight face.
Related: The Upside review – Bryan Cranston heads up horrific odd-couple disability drama...
- 1/11/2019
- by Charles Bramesco
- The Guardian - Film News
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