Pablo O. Scholz
08/26/2021 7:01 AM
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Updated 08/26/2021 7:01 AM
There are at least two reasons to sit back and enjoy
Relentless Justice
.
One is that it is directed by
Guy Ritchie
, who when he engages in portraying low-level thugs, it is difficult, but very difficult for something to go wrong.
The other is the presence of
Jason Statham
, who seems to me that of heroes or antiheroes or action villains, is the most charismatic there is.
As in many of his films, because it is not that this stripped English, 54 years old, has an acting capacity that amazes, Jason plays a mysterious guy.
Jason Statham enters a trucking company.
Why?
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The film of Madonna's ex starts with an up-sequence shot of a cash truck.
The talk is casual, trivial, until a truck crosses in front of them and a man in a vest and a stop sign cuts them off.
They are thieves, heavily armed, who will take the loot, but not before killing two guards and an innocent young man.
And when months later Jason Statham, nicknamed H, enters that firm of flow conveyors, and barely scrapes the test drive and target shooting, one already imagines that there is something strange.
"H" (Statham) and "Bala" (Holt McCallany, yes, the actor from "Mindhuter"), in full training test.
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We are not the only ones.
A supervisor (Eddie Marsan, I was a regular in the director's cinema of
Sherlock
and
Aladdin
) also distrusts H. More than anything when, being victims of another robbery, H does not flinch, he saves "Bala" (Holt McCallany, yes, the
Mindhunter
actor
) and leaves Dave (Josh Hartnett, thousands of years from
Sin City
,
Pearl Harbor
and
The Fall of the Black Hawk
fearful, to put it mildly
).
Well, H does not get a single scratch and eliminates all the criminals who stand up to him.
And if not, it pursues them.
And it kills them well dead.
More than a thriller
The actor from "The Transporter" and villain from "The Fast and the Furious" is always fine.
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But in addition to a thriller and an action film,
Relentless Justice
(
Wrath of Man
) is a film about pride.
Yes, there is something that motivates H, and that we are not going to spoil.
And that makes Ritchie go back and forth in time, jump into the past and into the future or present, retelling that heist from the beginning, and much more.
Just like the father.
Scott Eastwood, Clint's actor son.
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Again, the ease -something not very common even in successful Hollywood directors- that the director of
Snatch
and
The Gentlemen: Criminals with Class has
to make thugs talk is fundamental, too, here.
And among the many recognized faces that we already named, on the side of the wicked - or the worst - is Scott Eastwood.
Yes, one of the actor children of the great Clint, who is taller (1.93 m against 1.80 m of the baby) and one would say that he was bigger in every way, but seeing him on the screen makes, inevitably, think about his father, by the way he walks, his poses and gestures.
Holt McCallany and Josh Hartnett, co-workers of Jason Statham.
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Relentless Justice
lasts almost two hours and is an entertaining, violent film that has many twists and turns in its plot and that never belittles the viewer's attention.
There aren't usually many action thrillers that are so well shot, so Ritchie and Jason are well worth giving a chance again.
"Relentless Justice"
Very good
Thriller.
USA, UK, 2021.
Original title:
“Wrath of Man”.
119 ', SAM 13 R.
From:
Guy Ritchie.
Featuring: Jason Statham, Holt McCallany, Scott Eastwood, Josh Hartnett.
Rooms:
Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Caballito, Cinépolis Avellaneda, Showcase Norcenter.
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