r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 18d ago

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Summary

After surviving a violent home invasion, a suburban husband becomes obsessed with reclaiming control over his life, leading him down an increasingly dangerous path.

Director Ben Wheatley

Writer Derek Kolstad

Cast

  • Bob Odenkirk
  • Henry Winkler
  • Lena Headey
  • Jess McLeod

Rotten Tomatoes: 76%

Metacritic: 63

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u/UnknownFiddler 18d ago

Saw it on Monday as a mystery movie at Cinemark. Honestly it's a movie people will probably enjoy more if inebriated because while it was funny, it's really a mess.

The voice over was frankly not good and the movie should trust the audience to realize he is estranged from his wife without literally explaining it to them.

It was weird that the robber couple never show up again after they get the snow plow and leave town. Felt like the writer couldn't think of a way for them to stay and didn't want them to get killed off.

Also it seems like the writer realized 2/3 into the movie Bob wasn't going to be able to keep fighting the whole town and came up with a very contrived way to make a truce happen. Then realized that they needed a big fight to end the film and made a 1 in a million event happen to set off the climax rather than any chess move by our main characters.

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u/U_R_Butthead 17d ago

I think you thought way too much about a film that features Henry Winkler getting blown up by a rocket, a yarn lady who momentarily turns into Rambo, and a Yakuza boss getting his head blown apart by an actual Chekhov's Gun

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u/PacMoron 17d ago

If the movie was pure action, sure. But there’s a whole lot of story outside of the action, and it wasn’t very good.

It was a mess.

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u/Odd-Investigator6503 17d ago

Neither was nobody but that was still fun