Rhythm Section: Review
If there were factions of lovers of characters in 'Gossip Girl', I was definitely Team Blake Lively. In that, Lively was a tall, kind, decent human being who could act a bit but certainly didn't hurt the eye.
Well, she's married to Ryan Reynolds, has two children, lives in Bedford, New York (my cousins have seen her at a pizza place - disguised in caps and sunglasses to make sure that they aren't surrounded by 50-year multimillionaires just drooling for a selfie) and she's apparently not gone the way of Gossip Girl The Series, where the whole cast was involved in different levels of debauchery.
Anyhow..... the mind wonders......oh.....
And now I'm in Houston, Texas, in a cinema, watching 'The Rhythm Section', her latest movie.
No Chuck Bass, just her, Stephanie, a woman who's mourning her family after they died in a plane crash. A long way away from 5th Avenue, she's attracted a heroin habit ("I'm not an addict I'm a user" and a paid job in prostitution. When a journalist comes to visit her and tells her that no, it wasn't an accident but a terrorist attack and a few shenanigans follow, she decides to avenge the death of her killers .Think 'Wanted', except no-one's been kidnapped. She's goes to the bleak, ever-misty and cold-looking Scottish countryside, where she's trained up by former M16er 'B' Jude Law where she goes from Trainwreck to Bullet Train in the course of a few weeks.
In the training, she does all the generic stuff that woman have to go through to become cold-faced killers, including the drowning, shooting and fighting and the look that goes from 'I'm f**ked to "F**k You" over the space of a few days.
Then, there's the avenging stuff. You get a nice, frantic world tour, and there's lots of gunfire and punching and explosions - something that you were waiting for.
Expect when other angry woman assassin-types like Atomic Blonde, Lucy and Red Sparrow seemed unemotional, Stephanie's more imperfect (she actually cries a bit and is imperfect, and doesn't come up with too many hideously cheesy lines). But like every woman assassin-type, there's a bit of 'sexy spy cliche' that's, well, been seen all before.
Lively's acting is fine during the film, but you wonder what grade she would get with The Dialect Expert. It certainly wouldn't be a 10 out of 10.
In short 'Rhythm Section' has some rhythm, but not enough soul.
It's not as bad a film as the 'historic box-office bomb' might indicate, and frankly, it was quite enjoyable. But please, Paramount.....don't make a sequel.
3 out of 5.
Well, she's married to Ryan Reynolds, has two children, lives in Bedford, New York (my cousins have seen her at a pizza place - disguised in caps and sunglasses to make sure that they aren't surrounded by 50-year multimillionaires just drooling for a selfie) and she's apparently not gone the way of Gossip Girl The Series, where the whole cast was involved in different levels of debauchery.
Anyhow..... the mind wonders......oh.....
And now I'm in Houston, Texas, in a cinema, watching 'The Rhythm Section', her latest movie.
No Chuck Bass, just her, Stephanie, a woman who's mourning her family after they died in a plane crash. A long way away from 5th Avenue, she's attracted a heroin habit ("I'm not an addict I'm a user" and a paid job in prostitution. When a journalist comes to visit her and tells her that no, it wasn't an accident but a terrorist attack and a few shenanigans follow, she decides to avenge the death of her killers .Think 'Wanted', except no-one's been kidnapped. She's goes to the bleak, ever-misty and cold-looking Scottish countryside, where she's trained up by former M16er 'B' Jude Law where she goes from Trainwreck to Bullet Train in the course of a few weeks.
In the training, she does all the generic stuff that woman have to go through to become cold-faced killers, including the drowning, shooting and fighting and the look that goes from 'I'm f**ked to "F**k You" over the space of a few days.
Then, there's the avenging stuff. You get a nice, frantic world tour, and there's lots of gunfire and punching and explosions - something that you were waiting for.
Expect when other angry woman assassin-types like Atomic Blonde, Lucy and Red Sparrow seemed unemotional, Stephanie's more imperfect (she actually cries a bit and is imperfect, and doesn't come up with too many hideously cheesy lines). But like every woman assassin-type, there's a bit of 'sexy spy cliche' that's, well, been seen all before.
Lively's acting is fine during the film, but you wonder what grade she would get with The Dialect Expert. It certainly wouldn't be a 10 out of 10.
In short 'Rhythm Section' has some rhythm, but not enough soul.
It's not as bad a film as the 'historic box-office bomb' might indicate, and frankly, it was quite enjoyable. But please, Paramount.....don't make a sequel.
3 out of 5.
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